Hannah

Articles written by: Hannah

The brains behind the sore feet and grumpy donkey. There's more about me on the about me page, and in fact all over this website. It's all about me. And a donkey, and Wales.

The borderlands are over!

on September 2, 2013 at 7:19 am ×

See where we are on a map

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I thought that this inland bit would be easy. 360 whole degrees of route-planning options rather than the 180 that you get on the coast (unless you fancy getting wet), no particular requirements except to head south as fast as possible, green and pleasant lands to camp in, kind affluent […]

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Where are we?

on August 26, 2013 at 5:56 pm ×

See where we are on a map? near B4351, Hay-on-Wye, Hereford, Powys HR3 5DE http://goo.gl/maps/cH8XJ

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Zen and the art of donkey maintenance

on August 12, 2013 at 10:25 pm ×

It’s a very long time since I lived so much in the moment, probably not since primary school, if then. My moment extends to making sure I have some sort of supplies for breakfast, lunch and dinner tomorrow, maps for the next week, a very vague idea of the next […]

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The life and times of Chico

on August 1, 2013 at 10:39 pm ×

I’ve got Chico’s passport onboard, getting a bit raggedy and regularly doused in rainwater now, and it has the address where he was born on it. It’s in Rhyl, a town with a bit of a rough reputation on the north coast of Wales, and we happened to be passing […]

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A map! Give us a map!

on July 22, 2013 at 8:23 pm ×

May I apologise for the woeful lack of visual aid on this travel blog? It’s rubbish, unforgivable, and entirely Google’s fault, and maybe partly Apple’s. Any time I have a spare bit of phone battery, decent enough internet connection, and a couple of brain cells that haven’t withered in the […]

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Donkeyless life

on July 8, 2013 at 8:14 pm ×

What am I up to, without my donkey, you might ask. Or you might not ask – who cares? Well, I’ll tell you anyway. I am walking around Anglesey in fits and starts, trying to find ways of entertaining myself. I am learning the Desiderata (you know, the one that […]

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Can’t walk with him, can’t walk without him

on June 30, 2013 at 11:43 am ×

I’m glad to report that the injury rate to me has reduced, and Chico has undertaken some superb stretches of strolling, head down, undistracted by verges for whole dozens of minutes at a time. The Lleyn Peninsula is behind us, and we rounded the corner alongside the Menai Straights, where […]

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Midsummer mayhem

on June 22, 2013 at 9:29 am ×

Listen to your donkey, said two donkey godmothers and a couple of other kind donkey people, after I posted a picture of Chico refusing to move, or ‘planted’. He’s trying to tell you something. To me it sounds like this: “Are we nearly there yet? You didn’t tell me we […]

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The milk of human kindness, full fat

on June 17, 2013 at 1:39 am ×

So far I have met one horrible person. That’s really not bad for three weeks on the road, doing something conspicuous, peculiar and demanding. I’ve been calling people up with wild appeals for help, generally with dying battery and intermittent reception, not enough warning and ETAs I don’t stick to. […]