Category Archives: Walking

Day 6 Swale Way

Posted on June 10, 2025 by craftycreeky

Today was hard, we walked 12 miles from Richmond to Reeth. We usually average 2 miles an hour including regular breaks, today a lot of it was about q mile sn hour as the terrain was do difficult. We had … Continue reading →

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The Swale Way; Days 2 and 3

Posted on June 7, 2025 by craftycreeky

Tomorrow we start the final bit of our Swaledale walk, about 50 miles over five days. We did two 10 mile sections as day walks, here’s a few photos… Day 2 was Brafferton to Thirsk. There was a fair bit … Continue reading →

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Swale Way; Day 1

Posted on April 15, 2025 by craftycreeky

Each year my friend and I try and do a long distance walk, last year we did the Yorkshire Wolds Way, this year we have decided to do the Swale Way which follows the River Swale from it’s end where … Continue reading →

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Festival of Light

Posted on August 29, 2024 by craftycreeky

It’s my birthday this week and as a surprise my OH and Helen organised a weekend in the Lakes to see the Festival of Light. I’ve wanted to see it for years, it’s usually held in the spring, but this … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire Wolds Way Part 3

Posted on June 19, 2024 by craftycreeky

When we woke on day six of our walk, the first thing we did was to trot along to the shower block where our boots were drying on the towel rail. The previous day had been so wet our boots … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire Wolds Way Part 2

Posted on June 4, 2024 by craftycreeky

We’d been psyching ourselves up for our third day, it was not only the longest day of the walk at 13 miles, it was the furthest we’d walked for a loooong time! South Cave to Shiptonthorpe. We got ourselves organised … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire Wolds Way Part 1

Posted on June 1, 2024 by craftycreeky

Well it’s nearly a week since I finished the Yorkshire Wolds Way (YWW) and I’ve just about recovered! Here in the UK we have quite a lot of official long distance paths, my friend and I were doing one a … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire Wolds Way

Posted on May 18, 2024 by craftycreeky

I start my first big walk since 2020 today, the Yorkshire Wold Way, 79 miles from the Humber Bridge, inland to Malton then back out again to Filey Brigg. My friend and I used to do a long distance walk … Continue reading →

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The Elusive Kingfisher

Posted on March 6, 2023 by craftycreeky

My walking buddy and I have walked many miles along riverbanks, especially the Wharfe from Otley upstream to it’s source, but we have never seen even a flash of a kingfisher. It seems at times that the world and his … Continue reading →

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Moon gazing.

Posted on October 26, 2022 by craftycreeky

We went to see the moon at Bolton Abbey on Monday, well to be precise we went to see Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon. I happened to see a photo on facebook of the moon and thought it looked … Continue reading →

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