It's not going to be cheap to do it this way round. Especially when you consider that a round the world flight can be as cheap as £650 these days.And it's not, as many people suspect, that we're scared of flying. Quite the opposite. In fact, I get seasick - which will be fun.It's for the challenge, and for the achievement. It's not like nobody's done this kind of trip before, but that doesn't make it any less special.Travel writer and...

I had intended to keep detailed notes of our journey across the Pennine Way. Partly for my own memory, and partly because if I was ever to write about it, wouldn't it be far better to have some actual information to give people, rather than a series of rants about Karim, my feet and sheep?Well, it would, but I didn't, so what are you going to do?I also enjoy writing - as you may have noticed by the sheer volume of my random ramblings. So, I thought, The P...

The last stage of the Pennine Way is typically Byrness to Kirk Yetholm. Last and, arguably, the hardest. Apart from having some of the nastiest ascents on the journey, as you clamber up the Cheviot Hills, it is also the longest by far - 28 miles.This is because there is no civilisation at any point between the two places. The only places resembling shelter are two mountain refuge huts - one at around ten miles in, the second at around the twenty miles mark.We had...

It took us barely two hours to walk the last eight miles - like I said, it was mostly downhill.Spirits were pretty high but generally subdued. I don't know about Karim, but I was already starting to sense an anti-climax.We had a good sing-song for old times sake, and started to talk about the future. The future, it was decided, should not involve me suggesting we ever go on a long distance walk ever again as long as we both live.By the time we got into Kirk Y...

I am not much of a musician, and therefore the song I wrote about the Pennine Way is set to the tune of another classic - Cats in the Cradle. Which version of the song you set it to kind of depends on your mood, and how high up a bloody mountain you are.The song started as something to sing at Karim to annoy him. Then it became something to occupy my mind when I was going crazy. Eventually, it became a testement to the Pennine Way, and a reminder. I remember sayi...