Just wanted to thank you for your walk details - always check your site when we fancy doing a walk round the chilterns (could you wear a red carnation or something in case we bump into you)- quick trot from Marsworth to Wendover down the Wendover arm and back yesterday (Sunshine Red kites Dabchicks and loads of dragon/damsel flies) and your timings were spot on for us. Thanks

PETE'S REPLY: Thanks for that Anne. The Wendover Arm is a nice walk, quite varied for a canal walk and good for wildlife. I'll always remember seeing Mandarin ducks along it!

Hi Pete

No walks recently, is the site still up and running? I miss reading the latest walks, are you still walking?


Paul


PETE'S REPLY: Hi Paul. I've been having foot and leg problems recently which have prevented me from going on walks. Very frustrating! I saw a podiatrist today, and hopefully I'll be out walking and updating the site in a few weeks time.

Hi pete, love the site read your review on the chiltern link and decided to give it a go. I loved every minute of it. Thanks for the inspiration.

PETE'S REPLY: Glad you enjoyed the Chiltern Link, Clare. It's a nice walk that I'd like to do again sometime. I've repeated bits of it on other walks, but not the last few miles into Chesham. And thanks for your kind comments about my site.

Hi pete I have just stumbled across your site and wanted to say just how much I enjoyed your photos of the woodpecker in your garden on the feeder. I have just taken my first GOOD snap of a baby robin and am so proud of it thet it is my desktop . However that has inspired me to go for a better camera and I have ordered a PanasonicFZ18. I am a point and shoot woman of over a certain age so this is all new to me but saw that you had used a lens on your camera and wondered if you could tell me if other makes of lens will fit my new camera and if so what do I buy to make make them fit..It is ALL so confusing and NO camera classes near where I live and all I want to do is mostly take pics of birds in my garden and surrounding areas and other wild life.
Sorry to have droned on but I was so impressed with your photos and they is the first I have seen. I have been searching online for similar no one seems to mention bird photography without getting mind boggingly technical and speaking about massive expensive lenses etc. Thanks for reading this and if you have any tips I will be very grateful!
Topsy

PETE'S REPLY:
Hi Topsy, I'm sending you an email about the FZ18.

Hi Pete,
Just thought I would drop you a line to let you know that I have decided to give the Chiltern Chain Walk a go this summer as my big walking project, having done the Ridgeway last year. I was looking at other long distance paths for this year, but being as fond as I am of the Chilterns, and not being as familiar with the south western part I thought that your Chain Walk looks as good as any. I am sure that having created it, you would hope that some people would give it a try, so here goes. One little thing that I can't make my mind up about though, is whether to do the walks at this end (ie walks 1-4) again, as I have done these,in full, so often in the past, or just start with the new ones(I have done parts of these but not the entire routes), or do you feel that if you are going to do it, that you should do it completely from start to finish?
In any case, I will let you know my progress, and thanks for coming up with the routes, I am sure it will be a fine adventure.

Regards

Paul Duncan

PETE'S REPLY:
Hello again Paul! I really hope you enjoy walking the Chiltern Chain Walk. If nothing else, it should take you to some parts of the Chilterns you've not visited before. As for walking the first four sections, I don't see that you need to if you've walked all those paths before. Do let me know how you get on - please email me if you find any problems with the route directions, I recommend you check you can follow them on the map before you go, as I do have an embarrassing tendency to confuse right and left! I've checked the directions carefully, but there might still be one or two mistakes.