Category: Bugsy

Dales Way Link – Harrogate to Ilkley! TICK!!

Let’s start with the only thing that pissed me off, during the whole day. That was LNER! We picked the 8.42am service from Grantham (GRA) to Harrogate (HGT). So we did not have to change at Leeds. So what did they go and do?!? But cancel the part running from Leeds to Harrogate.

Which also did piss me off. Since it was the first time, I had used a train this year. The railways really do not help themselves!

Also then found out information on Class 800s are well crap, kept telling us the train was still running all the way to Harrogate!

Right anyway moving on from that…. The walk was amazing. I loved each and every part of it! The weather could not have been better. Bugsy was so good the whole day! Love the young man he’s turned into!

The walk took us from Harrogate to Ilkley, following one the Dales Way Links, covering a distance of 17.73 miles.

You can check out the route at www.strava.com/activities/8826320475

More photos can be found at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/dales-way/

You will be pleased to hear LNER was great on the way back! We went First Class, since it only cost around £8 more!

First Class with LNER

Longest walks during March 2023

Amazing to think that during March, I walking 161.9 miles! You think that is good… April is going to be something else! Think it will be anywhere between 200 and 250 miles… Since it’s the month that we are doing The Dales Way!

Here are the 5 longest walks that Bugsy, Mark G and myself did during March 2023!

  1. Day 2 : ECP : Berwick upon Tweed to Lindisfarne Inn, West Mains – 03/03/2023 – 15.56 miles
  2. Day 1 : ECP : Marshal Meadows to Scottish Border and Berwick upon Tweed inc Halidon Hill Circular – 02/03/2023 – 11.89 miles
  3. Grantham Canal, Coe Farm and Barrowby Circular – 20/03/2023 – 9.53 miles
  4. Day 3 : ECP : Holy Island – 04/03/2023 – 8.64 miles
  5. CW : Berwick-upon-Tweed – 05/03/2023 – 8.54 miles

Remember you can follow my cycling and walking adventures over at www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine

The Dales Way next month?!?!?

All going well next month (April), Bugsy, Mark G (house mate) and myself will be walking The Dales Way! It will be my biggest adventure, since doing the End to End cycle back in 2009!

The Dales Way runs for 80 miles from Ilkley in West Yorkshire to Bowness-on-Windermere in Cumbria. We will be doing the whole walk in one go! Not like other long walks, that I’ve done, which have been done over weeks, months and some even years!

So please make sure you give both www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine and www.strava.com/athletes/bugsythedog a follow!

Bugsy has his own website header image!

Since Bugsy is now a very, very big part of my life. It’s about time, he got his own website header image on my website!

Had Tears of Joy, while looking for images for this! Yep, I’ve really falling for him!!

Bugsy’s 15 longest walks!

WOW! Really can’t how many long walks Bugsy has took us on! 14 out of his 15 longest walks are over 10 miles!

Mark G, Bugsy and myself

Here is a list of 15 longest walks, we’ve done with Bugsy:-

  1. Monsal Trail, tick! Plus his longest ever WALK!! – 18.53 miles
  2. Day 2 : ECP : Berwick-upon-Tweed to Lindisfarne Inn, West Mains – 15.72 miles
  3. Day 3 : Isle of Wight Coastal Path : Freshwater Bay to Niton – 14.64 miles
  4. Day 7 : Leicestershire Round : Hallaton to Glooston Circular – 13.31 miles
  5. Day 4 : Isle of Wight Coast Path : Niton to Sandown – 12.35 miles
  6. Day 1 : ECP : Marshal Meadows to Scottish Border and Berwick upon Tweed – 12 miles
  7. Day 5 : Isle of Wight Coast Path : Sandown to Ryde – 11.57 miles
  8. Day 13 : GUC : Leicester Line : Loughborough to River Trent – 11.47 miles
  9. Day 2 : Isle of Wight Coast Path : Yarmouth to Freshwater Bay – 11.43 miles
  10. Day 1 Part B : Isle of Wight Coastal Path – 10.94 miles
  11. Day 1 of 2 : Brampton Valley Way : Northampton to Lamport – 10.76 miles
  12. Day 1 : Market Harborough Round : Hallaton, Tugby, Rolleston and Goadby Circular – 10.48 miles
  13. Day 5 : GUC : Leicester Line : Foxton Locks – 10.21 miles
  14. Day 3 : Leicestershire Round : Thorpe Satchville to Owston Circular – 10.10 miles
  15. Fylingthorpe to Whitby via Raw and the Cinder Track – 9.68 miles

Please give him a follow at www.strava.com/athletes/bugsythedog

WOW! Got Bugsy one year ago!!

WOW! So hard to believe that we got Bugsy one year ago!! So happy with the young man he’s turned into! He was very, very hard work for the first number of months. He’s now so loving. Loves going for long walks. And has to sleep on my bed each and every night!

Please welcome Bugsy to our family

Mark G, Bugsy and myself

Bugsy and myself

Many more photos of him can be found at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/bugsy/

Bugsy walked 60.3 miles in one week!

Here is a list of longest walks we did with Bugsy during our holiday. He walked a total of 60.3 miles.

Day 2 of the England Coast Path

These are in date order:-

Please give him a follow at www.strava.com/athletes/bugsythedog

Bugsy’s travel/walking map : 6-Mar-2023

Here is the full map of the places Bugsy, has walked since we got last him last year!

Please, give him a follow at www.strava.com/athletes/bugsythedog

Maps © Thunderforest, Data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Day 2 of the England Coast Path, tick!

That’s Bugsy, Mark G and myself have just done Day 2 of the England Coast Path. Which took us from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Lindisfarne Inn covering a distance of 15.56 miles.

You can check out the route at www.strava.com/activities/8653922777

Berwick Lighthouse

Day 1 of the England Coast Path, tick!

That’s Bugsy, Mark G and myself have just done Day 1 of the England Coast Path. Which took us from Marshal Meadows to the Scottish Border, then onto Berwick-upon-Tweed and back via Halidon Hill. Covering 11.89 miles.

You can check out the route at www.strava.com/activities/8648108773

Marshall Meadows Manor House

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