 A diary of walks, cycle rides and exploration that Peter Burgess has completed on his travels around his native 'north', his home in London and on his travels around the world. Most of Peter's accounts contain links to featured Youtube audio-visual presentations that he has created himself, not only to archive his travels but in order for him to share his experience. A recent addition his a new feature whereby he anticipates documenting the evolution of the Olympic Park and stadium in Stratford near his home. Please return in order to watch his current archive of 76 videos with 25,000 hits grow. "The OFC - See the outdoors from indoors!"
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Sunday, 13 July 2008 |
 In a drive to get urban youngsters to seek rural experience, the government started a new initiative directed via City Challenge in 2004. In that year I was fortunate enough to get involved with this initiative and took a group of students from my own school, Hackney Free & Parochial C of E Secondary. See how they got on... |
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
 In 2005 I was fortunate enough to be part of the delegation at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore. On return to London, the area designated for development into the venue for the London 2012 Olympic is slowly changing in preparation for the summer olympiad in that year. Just 4 miles from home, my cycle to work in Hackney passes directly through the Olympic Park and the site of the slowly emerging stadium. Return to this 'diary' regularly to see the changes and to witness the birth of the UK's third Olympic dream... |
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 |
 A second excursion along Offa's Dyke, this time travelling along the Mercian rampart south of Knighton. The walk is along one of the best preserved sections of the dyke which was thought to have been built in the late 8th century by King Offa of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Win a prize by reading on...
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
 Follow Peter Burgess as he joins many others on a visit to a Black Mountains' Hill Farm at 1150 feet above sea level. Here Richard Chantler and his wife Penny raise Romney sheep from genetics supplied from New Zealand. Richard has really adopted the NZ traditions with his sheep, clothing and even his sheep dogs! |
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Monday, 02 June 2008 |
 With another sojourn near Hay-on-Wye with days at the festival I planned to take two days off for walking. This first installment takes in a walk in rain from the River Lugg near Presteigne to Hay. I planned to walk along the Offa's Dyke National Trail but I didn't ask for rain which fell more or less constantly all day! |
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
 On a cold day (4th March 2006) I drove north from London through poor weather and in some places through snow on the M6. Progress was slow, although in the virgin snow north of Birmingham I was glad I was in the Land Rover. What followed, on my arrival in Cumbria was magnificent weather identified by blue sky, cold conditions and a covering of snow on the fells like caster sugar on a newly baked Victoria Sponge. Will you follow Peter Burgess on his magnificent ascent of Brown Cove followed by a traverse of Swirral and Striding Edges? This was one of those sublime mountain days... |
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Saturday, 29 March 2008 |
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 Walking in Lakeland is always a joy. Walking in snow and cold conditions I love. Traversing Swirral Edge is one of those longed for moments and crossing Striding Edge just adds to the adventure. Doing it all twice in the same afternoon was just joy! Join Peter Burgess and Andy Wallace on this day walk in heaven! (20th February 2003)
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