The Perimeter

Date of walk: 18/6/19  

Date of walk: 17/6/19 At Durness hostel, I’m trying to sleep in a twelve-bed dorm room; a motorbike club takes all the other eleven bunks. I’m pretty sure I’m witnessing a world record for the volume of synchronised farting, burping and snoring. The following day […]

Date of walk: 15/6/19

Date of walk: 14/6/19 My feet were white and crinkled from permanently wet boots when I fell asleep and are now hard and calloused in the morning. I treat them with cream in the tent to keep the skin supple and prevent splitting. As I’m […]

Date of walk: 13/6/19 It’s past midnight as I squelch out of the moorland to reach the track to the Cape Wrath Lighthouse, Scotland’s remote northwest point. In the pouring rain, I collapse to my knees, overcome by relief and emotion to kiss the road, […]

Date of walk: 12/6/19                                    

Date of walk: 11/6/19  

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Date of walk: 8/6/19  

Date of walk: 7/6/19 It’s bright enough to walk till midnight, and I camp at Stoer Point. When it finally gets dark in the early morning, the only lights I can see are from four lighthouses: north towards Cape Wrath, west to Lewis, south at […]

Date of walk: 6/6/19 At Loch An Eisg-Brachaird, having crossed the rough ground, I stop to cook a late breakfast by the shore. Vivid green grass and sea pinks blend into black, white and yellow lichen clad boulders nestled against the golden-green of seaweed. The […]