This is the story of what happens when I get a very silly idea into my head.

 

On March 31st 2011, I started walking from the Lizard in Cornwall.

On August 28th, I staggered into John o’ Groats in Caithness. In between I visited Land’s End, Dover, Lowestoft, Corrachadh Mòr , Cape Wrath, and Dunnet Head. A journey of around 2000 miles.

 

These eight locations are the extreme south, southwest, south east, east, west, northwest, north and northeast points of mainland Britain and I travelled between them all on foot. For fun.

 

Something like fun anyway. In between I battled man eating bogs, gale force winds, malfunctioning equipment, imaginary rabid badgers, surly cattle and the Scottish obsession with smoothflow beer.

 

Sit back in your armchair, fill up your coffee mug, make sure your boss can’t see your computer screen and join me on my travels.

 

To read my daily journal, click on of the links on the left, or click here to start at the very beginning.

 

If you enjoy my tales, or find yourself impressed by my strange willingness to go to such extreme lengths to avoid going to work, please see if you have pound or a fiver or a tenner (or a dollar, euro or zloty) spare to donate to my nominated charity Medecins Sans Frontieres UK. Just click on the donate link above.

 

Above all, enjoy the walk. I certainly did. And the midge bites will heal eventually.

Right?