Pilgrim's Progress – Long Distance Walks in Europe and the UK

Men at some time are masters of their fates.                                    The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves,        that we are underlings. William Shakespeare – Julius Caesar Act 1 Scene 2 Dubbed the most Roman city outside Italy, the centre of today’s Nîmes combines the impressive vestiges of its Roman past with

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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. Ian Fleming- Goldfinger (Goldfinger to Mr Bond) I had envisaged an easy day. 27km to Nimes. Fingers in the nose (doigts dans le nez) as they say in France. I would be in Nîmes by mid afternon, more than time enough for a leisurely

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But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put

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Not a whit, we defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.                     If it be now, ’tis not to come;         if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. William Shakespeare – Hamlet Act V Scene 2

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All my life I worried ’bout,What others thought of me.I always tried to watch myself,And act as I should be. Mind my manners, stand up straight,And try to be a lady,But we all knew that in my heart,I was a little shady. There was a wild thing lurking there,Just below the surface,Aching just to be

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You must have your own pace, and neither trot alongside a champion walker, nor mince in time with a girl Robert Louis Stevenson- Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes Pradelles is apparently one of the most beautiful villages in France. In mid September with the mercury barely into double digits and the majority of

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson – Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes I have something to confess. Sleeping in dormitories is not my idea of heaven on earth. Ten years of privation in dormitories at boarding

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Stand-up comedy is what I do, and it’s so rewarding. If you write a joke and tell it to an audience of 15,000 people who laugh their heads off at it, it’s the best feeling in the world. Michael McIntyre There are many things I wanted to be when I was young. They included –

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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Winston Churchill I woke up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night from a terrible nightmare. I’d seen the image of a short bladed tantō sword dripping in

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I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it. Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland It was just past 4pm. I had been waiting outside the gite I had booked at Sétoux for nearly an hour and there was a band of dark menacing looking rain clouds heading in our direction.

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