On Saturday 29 August, together with my wife Rachel, I completed the 68-mile English section of the CAMINO INGLÉS, an ancient pilgrimage route from Reading Abbey to Southampton Docks – please click on the headings below to take a look at my daily Blog of our journey
Please also take a look back on our progress on the Thames Path, my CAMINO PORTUGUÉS trek from spring 2026, and my CAMINO FRANCÉS walk across northern Spain last year – and perhaps revisit my earlier walking adventures: the posts are ordered with the most recent first, so just keep scrolling down the Blog headings below
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CAMINO INGLÉS – Sunday 31 August: REFLECTIONS, FACTS & FIGURES Home, rested and dry! We are now back from our Camino Inglés, and we have been looking back on a fabulous week of walking and camaraderie, nature and history, laughter and reflection. Having set out on two previous pilgrimages on my own, it was a…
CAMINO INGLÉS – Day 6: Saturday 29 August 2026 – EASTLEIGH to SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS (7.5 miles) Our final day of the English section of the Camino Inglés dawned grey, and the rain was falling steadily this morning as we contemplated the walk from Eastleigh into Southampton. Worse still, Karen was suffering from the week’s blisters,…
CAMINO INGLÉS – Day 5: Friday 28 August 2026 – MARTYR WORTHY to EASTLEIGH (12.5 miles) What great fortune Rachel and I enjoyed today, in having local residents Karen and George as tour guides for our memorable walk through the historic City of Winchester. Karen is vicar at three churches in the city, so is…
CAMINO INGLÉS – Day 4: Thursday 27 August 2026 – UPPER WIELD to MARTYR WORTHY (12.5 miles) Logistics today dictated that we took two cars, and left one each end of the day’s walk: thus we drove back to Upper Wield, where we had finished our trek yesterday, before setting off south-westward on foot once…
CAMINO INGLÉS – Day 3: Wednesday 26 August 2026 – WORTING to UPPER WIELD (10.5 miles) Our third day on the Camino Inglés proved to be the most rural, as we left town and motorway to cross the undulating fields and forests of some of the more remote parts of Hampshire. Our path this afternoon…
CAMINO INGLÉS – Day 2: Tuesday 25 August 2026 – MORTIMER to WORTING (14.0 miles) Today, the second stage of our Camino, did indeed start with a sapphire sky. But before my full account of our daily walk perhaps a few words on our pilgrimage route are in order. The 68.5-mile path from Reading to…
CAMINO INGLÉS – Day 1: Monday 24 August 2026 – READING ABBEY to MORTIMER (11.5 miles)* Maybe I am becoming a serial pilgrim, as less than three months after returning from the Camino Portugués, I now find myself back on another ancient pathway: the English section of the ancient Camino Inglés. This route, also known…
THE THAMES PATH – DAY 9: Tuesday 18 August 2026 – PANGBOURNE to READING (6.9 miles) Well, with a free day in the calendar, Rachel and I made the rash decision to set an early alarm this morning, as we left town for a short day’s walk in continuation of our Thames Path journey. Picking…
THE THAMES PATH – DAY 8: Thursday 23 July 2026 – WALLINGFORD to PANGBOURNE (11.3 miles) The settlement of Wallingford has a long history, and was the likely Thames crossing point for William the Conqueror in 1066 on his circuitous (and largely bloodless) march on London following the Battle of Hastings. It was here that…
THE THAMES PATH – DAY 7: Wednesday 22 July 2026 – ABINGDON to WALLINGFORD (13.5 miles) A week or two ago Rachel and I decided to rekindle our Thames Path project that had lain dormant for a few months. A lot of water has flowed under the bridges of the river since last November when…
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