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Month: July 2015

Offa’s Lessons: What we learned from our defeat

Offa’s Lessons: What we learned from our defeat

  Britain – Anja & Henry: 1 – 0 After Henry had slipped a couple of times and presumably broke his left toe, we called off the Offa’s challenge. We almost made it halfway through, after seven days of walking. Not bad. But we could have done better, no doubt about it, we didn’t achieve our goal of walking the whole way. Well, next time. Or not. Some lessons we learnt anyway:   Take your time – take breaks. 425…

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Off of Offa: Hay-on-wye to Knighton

Off of Offa: Hay-on-wye to Knighton

  From Hay-on-wye our next stop would be Kington passing Gladestry where we stopped for tea in a very small tea house (a lady had transformed her living room into a small cafe, the door was wide open but we had to ring some bells on the table to call for service). The landlady told us some weird tales of a pipe organ that sent the church community into rage over the question whether to keep and restore it or get rid off…

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Crossing the Black Mountains – Pandy to Hay-on-wye

Crossing the Black Mountains – Pandy to Hay-on-wye

  For me, this was definitely the best stretch of the Offa’s Dyke Path. Despite the weather, the hardship, the scarce landscape. Or maybe because of these apects. Our Guidebook had warned us that the upcoming hike across the Black Mountains should not be undertaken lightly in bad weather conditions. The ascent was supposed to be steep and long, and the mountain scenery scarce and harsh. If conditions were to worsen on the ridge, there were only two possibilities to…

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