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stevieboy378

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Re: Places To Walk Before You Die..
« Reply #30 on: 14:35:27, 12/05/09 »
Shirley Valentine was filmed in Mykonos, as far as I can remember . . . .

Back to walking - I've walked to the top of Vesuvius, and would love to follow that with Etna.
Capri was also a fantastic place to walk.

The one place I'd seriously love to walk before I die ? - The Moon. I'm a child of the 60's, and wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid . . . .
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« Reply #31 on: 14:47:05, 12/05/09 »
Man NEVER landed on the moon though  ::)

Conspiracy theory proven  ;)

It was all concocted to beat the ruskies

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« Reply #32 on: 14:51:34, 12/05/09 »
Ha, I may shock you all...but remember I am new to hiking/walking long distances, a student with little time on his hands (I am a placement student at the moment) and with little money.

1. Cleveland Way

Will be my first hike/walk in over 8 years. Only doing 65miles of it due to time restrictions but hoping it can kick start something new!

2. Yorkshire 3 Peaks

After the Cleveland Way i have discussed other walking options with my friends who are coming with me and we reckon we may get round to walking the yorkshire 3 peaks sometime in late august/early september.

3. Hadrien's Wall

83 miles I think?...would want to do this as it sounds like an interesting walk and isn't far from where I live.

4. C2C

Would be a cracking walk, would need plenty of time, probably looking at Easter next year when I have some time off Uni.

As I said, bit of a boring list as many of you may have done them, more than once, but I am new to this thing!
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« Reply #33 on: 15:01:08, 12/05/09 »
Everyone starts somewhere Redders  ;)

Not a bad list to start with there  :)

Power to you  O0

stevieboy378

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« Reply #34 on: 15:07:32, 12/05/09 »
Man NEVER landed on the moon though  ::)

Conspiracy theory proven  ;)

It was all concocted to beat the ruskies

LOL - you're not gonna quote the 2 shadows theory are you ?
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« Reply #35 on: 15:18:15, 12/05/09 »
Nope  ::)

I watched the so-called landings on TV and as a boy and I was not convinced  :o

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« Reply #36 on: 15:42:47, 12/05/09 »
I've walked to the top of Vesuvius, and would love to follow that with Etna.

Whereas you can walk around the rim of the caldera of Vesuvius, they don't allow you near the top of Etna. 

You go a long way up winding narrow road, passing remains of buildings half buried in black lava, till you reach a terminus where you get on a cable car that takes you part of the way up, then you transfrer to something like a small bus with caterpillar tracks.

After disembarking from that, we were escorted with a guide (sort of, it was a rather straggly group) a couple of hundred metres higher up the mountainside.  We could only go as far as a chain barrier from which hung prominent yellow warning signs, and had to content ourselves with photographing the summit and smoke from there - not that we could see a great deal of it, because bad weather was closing in (it was the month of May).

It started to snow, and by the time we got back down to the Refugia, the volcano above us was covered white, while below us a big thunderstorm raged.  In fact, we became trapped in the building by this storm, only venturing outside into the heavy rain some two hours later when the next bus arrived.

This was in 2001, before the last eruption which completely destroyed the Refugia and all that was associated with it.




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Re: Places To Walk Before You Die..
« Reply #37 on: 15:58:26, 12/05/09 »
Nope  ::)

I watched the so-called landings on TV and as a boy and I was not convinced  :o

I too watched them ( I was 6 years old at the time ), but the picture was such poor quality that I couldn't really see what was happening . . . .
What makes you so convinced the landings were fake ?
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« Reply #38 on: 16:01:30, 12/05/09 »
Exactly for that reason  ;)

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« Reply #39 on: 22:13:28, 12/05/09 »
Nice to see Kriti getting a mention - perhaps I will tell my casual vomiting story from Omalos one day once I know you all a bit better!  ;D

Top of my hit list is the Chilean Andes and the Karakoram range - I'd love to go there one day. Now.....getting to the top of anything there....that would be another matter!
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« Reply #40 on: 14:15:36, 13/05/09 »
Ha, I may shock you all...but remember I am new to hiking/walking long distances, a student with little time on his hands (I am a placement student at the moment) and with little money.

1. Cleveland Way

Will be my first hike/walk in over 8 years. Only doing 65miles of it due to time restrictions but hoping it can kick start something new!

2. Yorkshire 3 Peaks

After the Cleveland Way i have discussed other walking options with my friends who are coming with me and we reckon we may get round to walking the yorkshire 3 peaks sometime in late august/early september.

3. Hadrien's Wall

83 miles I think?...would want to do this as it sounds like an interesting walk and isn't far from where I live.

4. C2C

Would be a cracking walk, would need plenty of time, probably looking at Easter next year when I have some time off Uni.

As I said, bit of a boring list as many of you may have done them, more than once, but I am new to this thing!

The Cleveland Way is near me - I never get sick of it - there are lovely spectacular views over moorland, coast and more gentle countryside, nice villages and pubs - can be lonely and weather fierce sometimes ;) You need boots with good support to the ankles as the going can be strenuous.

ps I once read a book where it said along a particular stretch there was nowhere to find an alcoholic beverage without going down to a nearby village - but at the top of Carlton Bank ie between Live Moor on one side and the Cringle and Cold Moors  on the other there is the Lords' Stones cafe where we had lagers last time we walked there. For ages we could never find it as from the high land it's invisible - it's a strange low bunker-like building which blends into the landscape but it's there alright ;)
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Re: Places To Walk Before You Die..
« Reply #41 on: 21:25:13, 14/05/09 »
Nice area - the Cleveland Way  ;)
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Re: Places To Walk Before You Die..
« Reply #42 on: 04:08:16, 29/09/09 »
Do more walking in the Dales & Lake District

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Re: Places To Walk Before You Die..
« Reply #43 on: 06:45:40, 29/09/09 »
Mines easy - I want to explore the Lakes fully - that's been my ambition since discovering them but.........I want to do some of the very remote Scottish Peaks. Outside of that just Crib Goch.

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« Reply #44 on: 08:10:58, 29/09/09 »
I would have to say some of the more scary ridge walks like Crib Goch.

I'm terrified of heights (well not so much heights but steep drops, don't mind been high up) and I would like to think that one day I will get over it  :-\

 

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