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Keen walker Peter Youngs had always dreamed of hiking the length of Britain, but never thought he’d have the chance. Then fate intervened, so he packed a rucksack and a roll of waterproof tape and caught a train. car rental in mexico CHRIS OWEN reports.
For Peter, a semi-retired car rental in mexico clerical officer in the eye department at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, is still coming down to earth after completing his lifetime’s ambition, walking from one end of the country to the other.
He happily admits he became obsessed by his challenge. car rental in mexico ‘I can honestly say I’ve walked every single metre. I made sure I returned to the exact spot at which I’d finished the last leg. I couldn’t car rental in mexico possibly have missed a bit. I would have been cheating myself.
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He’s been a walker for about 30 years (he’s well past retirement age, but declines to reveal the exact number saying ‘people always think I’m much younger than I am so I’d rather keep it that way’), but why the greatest walking challenge car rental in mexico in the UK, apart from the round-Britain-coastline walk?
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car rental in mexico The most direct route is about 870 miles, but Peter clocked up 1,535 and used various National Trails – the South West Coast Path, Offa’s Dyke Path up the Welsh/English border, the West Highland Way and Great Glen Way.
‘Some do it north to south but I always want to save the best until last. Cornwall is marvellous, but I felt the Scottish Highlands car rental in mexico would be the jewel in the crown and I wanted the walk to get better as I went on. And it did.’
‘You wouldn’t think it possible would you?’ he laughs. ‘But by catching that first train of the day from Cosham to Bristol and then catching other trains and buses, I proved it could be done. And it was always nice to get back home at the end of what, admittedly, were some long days.’
And his kit? He got through several pairs of boots and a couple of pairs of wellies. Yes, wellies. He produces his last pair, the soles almost bald. ‘During the winters I came across badly-flooded areas and they were ideal.’
‘Before I started I thought I’d be lonely and get bored, but the amazing thing is that from the moment I started at Land’s End I found there was so much to think about logistically there wasn’t time to get lonely.’