Bernie's boots were made for walking -

a most interesting Bernie Large dropped in to The Dolphin Inn this morning for a pint of Strongbow and to duck one of the many thunderstorms we had today.

Young Bernie, who has a blog of his own(coastwalkerunplugged.blogspot.com), set off from Land's End 70 days ago on the day of the Royal Wedding, 29th April and has been zig zagging his way back and forth across the UK with the intention of reaching John O'Groats.

He walked up through Cornwall, then up the Roman Wall dividing England and Wales, meets up with relatives wherever they live - crossed the Pennines to the east coast, then back west again along Hadrian's Wall, then back to the east and visited the Border abbey's at Melrose and Jedburgh , through Lauder to Whitekirk and then headed for the Quay at Edinburgh stopping in to have his pint at Whitecraig. He aims to visit two hundred pubs en route.

From Edinburgh, he will walk the Union / Forth Clyde Canal , via the Falkirk Wheel, to Glasgow then north using parts of the West Highland Way - to Fort William, up Ben Nevis, then through the Great Glen to Inverness and thereafter by way of the beaches to John O'Groats - well done.

His good lady wife is driving their camper van, and while he averages about fifteen miles a day she gets to visit the shops or find the evening's parking, and then walks back to meet up with him.

AND - none of these new fangled Sat Navs/ Tom Tom's, gold old fashioned navigation with the trusty Ordnance Survey map and a compass.

Well done Bernie, and his blog is worth a read also.