18 Apr 2021
HITTING THE ROAD: Kevin Dowson will walk the length of UK to raise funds for charity
A FORMER Teesdale resident is hoping to raise more than £10,000 for a cancer charity and kids camp by walking from Land’s End to John o’Groats this summer, a year later than he had anticipated.
Kevin Dowson, who grew up in Copley, but moved to Derby in the early 1990s, had intended to marking his 60th birthday in May last year by attempting to walk the length of the United Kingdom in just 60 days, raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support and a volunteer organisation run close to his home, Derby Kids Camp.
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Arguably the most beautiful Cotswold village of them all, Stanton is refreshingly free of gift shops. This delightful ‘highland’ yomp includes Snowshill (nationaltrust.org.uk) and Stanway (stanwayfountain.co.uk), both famous for their exquisite manor houses. The latter, with its superb water garden and 300ft fountain, was a favourite of Peter Pan author, JM Barrie. Along the way you’ll also see Neolithic Shenberrow Hill Fort.
Leaving ‘The Mount’, as the pub is known, follow the Cotswold Way in a U around Shenberrow Hill to where it meets the Winchcombe Way, then loop around via Buckland Wood to Snowshill. The return leg takes you through Lidcombe Wood and down the steep hill to Stanway. Finally, head north for the final leg back to Stanton along the Cotswold Way once more.
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Baransky volcano on the Kuril Islands, Russia. Photograph: Yuri Smityuk/TASS
Paolo Cognettiâs book Without Ever Reaching The Summit is a powerful evocation of the travellerâs enduring need to be surprised, and it has made me think of a place I want to return to when this is all over: the Kuril Islands in Russiaâs far east, strung like a necklace between Kamchatka and Hokkaido. Soviet historians called them the end of the world but they feel more like the beginning: the haunting mist, the steel-grey ocean scored with pathways of foam, conical volcanoes wrapped in skirts of shimmering jade.