For a long time now I’ve been pondering the best route to take for the last part of the walk. I could veer off into the southwest, strike the south coast and approach Brighton from the west. Or I could skirt London anticlockwise and end up arriving from the north close to the route of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘buckinghamshire’
Misty en route: Great Missenden to Chalfont St Giles
Posted in Accounts of the walk, Route, tagged argleton, buckinghamshire on November 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A Town Called Buzzard: revisiting Leighton
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged buckinghamshire, bucks, conan, leighton buzzard, milton keynes, mk, reh, robert e. howard on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Despite walking nearly 25 miles, I still hadn’t reached Leighton Buzzard, site of childhood holidays and source of my first Robert E. Howard Conan book (as described earlier). I had gone to sleep in the MK hotel to the sounds of drunken revelry turning nasty, closing-time shouting and what sounded like barking police dogs from [...]
Quiet Man Bucks Reality
Posted in References and signposts, tagged brighton, psychogeography, peel, mere england, bucks, buckinghamshire footpaths, buckinghamshire, #hopenothate on June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The next legs of the journey will take me through Buckinghamshire. This being the case, I have picked up a guidebook of sorts: Buckinghamshire Footpaths, by J.H.B. Peel, found in Wigtown (‘Scotland’s book town’) while on holiday. Buckinghamshire Footpaths was published in 1949, when a Britain battered by war was re-creating itself, and part [...]
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