Latest News December 2007 Christmas 2007. I’ll just say that again. Christmas 2007. Frightening really how time has shot past from the early days when we first started talking about the possibility of completing this journey to highlight sight loss. We have continued trying to attract a high profile supporter for the journey in order [...]

Latest News November 2007 The continuing saga of Cathy’s glaucoma has dominated most of our time again this month. Cathy has been increasingly frustrated over the last weeks with the lack of progress on the National Health Service front. She has increasingly felt that the doctors have been adopting a ‘wait and see’ approach after [...]

Latest News October 2007 We have been offline for most of October for several reasons and so we are behind in the news! Partly we have not been online as we have had no broadband connection for several weeks as we transferred the connection from Bernard’s house to Catherine’s (talk about complicated and drawn out! [...]

Latest News September 2007 Well, we wondered, where has all the time gone recently! Suddenly here we are in September of 2007 with time fast disappearing after our summer journey and June 1st 2008 beckoning in the near distance. The highs and lows of attracting support seem to swing the two of us from mountain [...]

 John O’Groats to Land’s End (week 4) (Select here for week one report, here for week two, here for week three and here for week four) (The Long Way Round or should that be The Long Way Down?) Lewis to Skye We woke up to the next day refreshed and it was time to move onwards to Skye which [...]

John O’Groats to Land’s End (week 3) Select here for week one report, here for week two, here for week three and here for week four (The Long Way Round or should that be The Long Way Down?) We are writing this entry in Thurso after covering the 206 miles from Pitlochy, where we left at 1pm. We cannot [...]

John O’Groats to Land’s End (week 2) (Select here for week one report, here for week two, here for week three and here for week four) (The Long Way Round or should that be The Long Way Down?) After checking the weather forecast – surprise, surprise, we altered the route and headed north! The south was still flooded and, [...]

John O’Groats to Land’s End (Select here for week one report, here for week two, here for week three and here for week four) Week one (July) (The Long Way Round or should that be The Long Way Down?) It’s really hard to know where to start with this first entry. If you have followed [...]

Latest News August 2007 John O’Groats to Land’s End (The Long Way Round or should that be The Long Way Down?) Currently on the road for a test run – Select here for week one report, here for week two, here for week three and here for week four. Catherine has written a section for a book being produced by [...]

Latest News July 2007 John O’Groats to Land’s End (The Long Way Round or should that be The Long Way Down?) Currently on the road – select here for week one report on test run. If you understand Hungarian (!) then you can select here to review an appearance in Hungarian literature. I’ve only reproduced [...]