Barney's Long Walk

A great time at the 40th ( Ruby) Flatcoat Breed Show this weekend. It coincided with our (Jos & Bob) Ruby Wedding Anniversary so a double event!   A great day - thanks to all the organiser...

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Our Flat Coat Retriever Barney is walking the length of Great Britain with us starting 27th March 2015. The route is from Land's End to John O'Groats and is approx. 1400 miles / 2500km mostly off-road and will take about 4 months. We are doing it for fun but Barney has a mission - to collect money for Guide Dogs! Help him along the way - just click the donations tab to find out how...

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A week in Badenoch and some good walks...

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Barney's up in the snow again on another Creag Dhubh near Aviemore...

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Barney is 9 today so what better way to celebrate it than go for a walk...

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Barney has been up Killhope Law with us today - our local hill and one we try to do every year when the snow's down. The trig point at the top in the cloud Barney's very interested in the la...

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We haven't posted to the blog for a while, so just to let you know that Barney is still enjoying his walks even after finishing the long one! Here he is on Blencathra in the Lake District today ...

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  With the wet and windy December weather we're having here in the north of England it seemed a suitable time to review our trip this spring and summer. We would like to thank all who helped us...

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Barney had Meg walking with him for the last few days of the walk as her owners Geoff & Wendy became our support team from the Crask Inn to John O'Groats. Wendy and Meg walked with us whilst Ge...

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Now it's us two* asking for your help! Final round voting in the Mountain Warehouse competition finishes soon. If you haven't voted yet please go to http://bit.ly/1eCdpJz and help us to win �...

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Come on folks - we need votes! We're 3rd at the moment in the Mountain Warehouse competition so your vote may make difference between winning and losing! See the last post for details. Here is ...

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Hello from the Barney's Long Walk team, Although the walk ended at the beginning of August we are still collecting for Guide Dogs! We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who ha...

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Barney's made it into the final 10 of the Mountain Warehouse competition! Please vote to help him win the £10000 prize for Guide Dogs. Even if you voted in the first round, please do so agai...

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Barney gets a whole page feature in our local Hexham Courant! Still time to match a mile - see www.DogsUnite.org.UK/match-a-mile for details. Also donations page is still open at www.JustGiving...

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As a few of you will know, our youngest grandson, Archie, was diagnosed with cancer just a few days after we started the trek. We deliberated over whether to terminate the walk but decided to con...

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A 6 O'clock taxi saw us at Thurso station for the 6:50 to Inverness. Then it was trains to Edinburgh, Carlisle and finally Haltwhistle where Sue picked us up - thanks! Before we knew where we we...

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A rest day! The weather stayed fine so we simply... chilled out. We finished by visiting the Seaview Hotel and I had quite the best seafood meal I have ever had!

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Well, what a final day! The guidebook describes this as not suitable for children or dogs and we had two (I'll let you decide who they are...)! A glorious walk along cliff edges where sometimes...

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A full day for Wendy & Meg. First forest, then steadily more easy down to Watten where we enjoyed our first shop since Ullapool! Next was a change of route - Andy Robinson in the guide describes...

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More track and eventually we met up with Geoff & Wendy again for Wendy & Meg to join us for the walk whilst Geoff did the transport. Jos had described the camper van previously as the (n)ice crea...

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Wendy and here dog, Meg, came part way for this one and it immediately started hard! We have found that forestry and other changes in Scotland has meant the route details have been outdated in so...

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We arranged to meet Geoff & Wendy part way through todays trek and then Wendy walk with us while Geoff took the sacks - what a man! After a lovely walk around the loch (spot the deer in the pic ...

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As well as staying at a pub, we have met up with friends Geoff & Wendy from Arisaig who we last saw on the stage from Fort William where Geoff took our bags and Wendy walked with us for the day. ...

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Heading for a pub! We've wanted to stay at this inn - one famous amongst walkers and fishermen alike! Situated in the middle of a large expanse of remote country, it was quite a walk to get to it...

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Wet to start again! Another very remote section of the walk as we traversed around the flanks of Ben More Assynt and headed towards Loch Shin. The route followed an old track and then we decided ...

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