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Very Long Walks: November 2011

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Wednesday, 30 November 2011. In print at last. Now available: A Very Long Walk is the published version of these articles and blogs, written while undertaking a 2,300-mile, 9-month long walk from my home in central London to Santiago de Compostella in Spain. Posted by Rachel Escott. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. And in large business transformation. We also operate a more creative side of our business, linking our work in the arts to fiction. We hope t...

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Very Long Walks: The end

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Sunday, 5 October 2008. There should be moments of great emotion; revelations about life, ourselves or both. Our way of behaving in the world should, Damascus-like, be transformed. Yet thoughts and emotions rarely occur at the scheduled moments, but at the right ones. We had all the superficial milestones: the "last hundred kilometres" post; "only three more days to go"; the "last time I need to wash out this t-s. Even so it was impossible to know what to think or feel. Numb. Complete. Astoun...But grati...

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Very Long Walks: In print at last

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Wednesday, 30 November 2011. In print at last. Now available: A Very Long Walk is the published version of these articles and blogs, written while undertaking a 2,300-mile, 9-month long walk from my home in central London to Santiago de Compostella in Spain. Posted by Rachel Escott. There was an error in this gadget. Rachel Escott and David Steel are partners in business and on this walk (we’re married too, which helps). Back home, we act as consultants in the arts. And in large business transformation.

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Very Long Walks: October 2008

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Tuesday, 14 October 2008. This scene is the reason we came to Barcelona: for late sun and warmth and a chance to test how small a pocket of the year my white fingers can be squeezed into. Ought we really to spend the winter wandering the tapas bars where some Flamenco musician is playing the guitar – while stocks and shares burn all around? Maybe we could, maybe we should. But in the first shocked days here, before we remembered the beach, we had already decided it was time to head for home. Links to thi...

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Very Long Walks: July 2008

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Thursday, 31 July 2008. Messing about in boats. Our paddles snagged in clinging brambles and we forced ourselves free of the bank. I wondered if this had been a mistake: just as I'd come to terms with the mountains of the Auvergne, I found myself a whole new comfort zone to fall outside. The cloudy water with its orange tints of iron hid the small rocks on. The river didn't stay calm for long, of course. Every silent interlude pierced only by the mewling of the buzzards was followed by the rising cha...

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Very Long Walks: November 2007

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Thursday, 29 November 2007. Till I was eighteen I lived in just two houses – whose gardens were close enough to call across – in a south Derbyshire village where schools, churches, Scouts and Guides wove the 1960s blossoming of families into a community. As we prepare to say goodbye to our neighbours and friends here, I wonder if our plans to return really will happen. Will this community still be ours or will we once again be passing strangers, part of those masses who lubricate London? What we hadn&#82...

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Very Long Walks: The cycle of the seasons

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Monday, 29 September 2008. The cycle of the seasons. Cut logs are stacked on the back of a lorry in a lay-by on Sunday night, waiting to be hauled to a. The acorns we saw sprouting red in the dark earth of February and March have reappeared on the trees and now are falling again to lie freshly at our feet, where carpets of autumn crocuses have replaced the spring ones we were so excited to see. In a rare excursion into a Spanish bed and breakfast. In Samos, we once again find ourselves. Other things are ...

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Very Long Walks: March 2008

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Thursday, 27 March 2008. We were convinced that when we finally turned south at Laon everything would – figuratively speaking – be downhill all the way. But one way or another, we’ve hit a brick wall instead. All along we had assumed that the changeover of equipment would coincide with shedding considerable weight in winter thermals ad excess hats and gloves, not to mention the kettle. Spring, you see, and In The South. But lo! It just wasn’t reasonable. With some sadness we have decided to sac...So back...

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Very Long Walks: February 2008

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Thursday, 28 February 2008. Which brings me to the full packing list for winter walking:. Rucksack - Lowe Alpine Tucana ND 65 15 L with Torso fit system, with built-in rain cover. 1 Mountain Equipment rolltop waterproof bag with air valve. 3 Exped waterproof compression sacks size S for clothes. 2 Life Venture showerproof lightweight drawstring bags size 8. Large plastic bag for wet clothes. 3 spare plastic bags. Pack Mate AnyLock Freshness Bags http:/ www.anylock.co.uk/. Plastic carrier bags normal.

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Very Long Walks: April 2008

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Tuesday, 29 April 2008. Up at 1000 feet where we wake our heads are in clouds that condense into tears on our faces. But Accolay, where we start walking, is only 360 feet above sea level and the clouds here are resolved into plaques that shade from white to gunmetal grey. The sky is like Navy camouflage but despite the predictions, it isn’t raining. The early 1970s. Then it died and the alarming, angular, fading concrete. Further along, we see for the first time low purple flowers with bright yellow cent...