By: Blonde One
This week the Two Blondes are embarking on the third and final element to my DofE Diamond Challenge. After a very successful Bronze expedition in Torbay and Teignbridge, and a fantastic Silver expedition on Dartmoor we are soon to begin our Gold Expedition.
But where should we go? The recent National Parks week combined with the fabulous collections of OS maps, that we have thanks to being OS Champions, has meant that we have been utterly spoilt for choice. We have 15 playgrounds to choose from and didn’t really know where to start with our choices. We slowly narrowed it down to a few that were unfamiliar and not completely the other end of the country from Devon. We listened to recommendations from all sorts of people and did lots of research about popular peaks and features.
Can you guess where we finally settled for?
Got fed up with you and Sir Hugh dominating the walking scene. Take a look at my post Not Quite LEJOG – I think it captures the spirit of the terrain.
I reckon there’s an unfilled niche dealing with more domestic transits. My next will be titled: Couch – Telly – Couch.
I enjoyed your ‘walk report’ but appreciated your own comment on the post more. Gadgets such as Sir Hugh uses, have been annoying us Blondes this week and I am not sure that I like being told that my height gain was only 1000 ft when it felt like three times that!
Exmoor and the Brecon Beacons having been done recently and Dartmoor being the norm, I will pass on those. The New Forest is not mountainous. I’ll take a guess at either Snowdonia or the Black Mountains – but perhaps the Black Mountains are not a national park. I’ll bet on Snowdonia?
K9 and I are planning a gentle meander round a lake, on the grounds that neither of us is getting any younger, though I always make sure in Sainsbury’s that I have the shopping-separator thing that says “Under 25?”