Five Hundred Mile Walkies: One Man and a Dog Versus the South-west Peninsular Path

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Not exactly as Mark had planned, however: this time his companion was to be the delectable Jennifer - but she was held up at the office, and when Boogie was dropped off at the kennels the other dogs complained.

Really interesting to read about the villages and coastline on your 500 Mile walk, I would watch it if it was a film or even a series. A light and amusing read, describing the walk of Mark and his borrowed dog Boogie around the South West Coast Path from Minehead to Poole Harbour.

I’m currently doing a virtual walk along the South West Coast Path (I’ve just walked around the Lizard peninsular) and so have revisited The Salt Path, and read this as being topical to my virtual walk. I have found it an amusing read thanks to mark’s way of telling his adventure from Cornwall up to the Thames .

This is a heroic study of survival against the odds, as together they take a journey, up hill and down dale, with rucksacks full of kennomeat, along Britain's longest coastal footpath - from Somerset to Devon, from Cornwall to Dorset. Mile Walkies' tells of how the author decided to walk from Minehead to Poole, following the coast line through Devon, Cornwell and Dorset. I have read and re-read this light hearted adventure, one of the best as far as easy reading goes this is the type of book that makes you casually wonder if your capable of walking the path yourself, and where you would borrow a dog from if you did decide to do this? This is a nice restful, mildly amusing story of a man and a dog trekking along the coasts of Devon and Cornwall.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It is said if you do the entire path, the total height climbed is four times the height of Everest, yet it is very accessible and there are plenty of characterful pubs close to the path at which to enjoy a well earned meal and a drink. The dog is question is small and disreputable and wedded to city life - think Discworld's Gaspode but without the brains. He's supposed to be accompnnied by Jennifer, his on-off girlfriend, but when she fails to turn up, he takes his dog, Boogie - well, more that he can't find anywhere to have him for the duration.

A thoroughly enjoyable read that has cemented my desire to trek one of the long distance paths here, in more than one day increments. It is the account of an (at first) inept young man walking the Southwest coastal path along with a singularly unattractive dog. It reads as a bit 'dated' but then that's also interesting, as it reminds me of how life was in England in the 70's (80's? Two books in one, I enjoyed the walk around the South West Coastpath more than the rowing up the Thames river. Mark Wallingtons travels with boogie are books that are very good to go back to after a read that has taken a lot of concentration and investment.

Mile Walkies, Mark Wallington, First published by Hutchinson 1986, my edition published by Arrow 1987. The humorous travel book we've been waiting for' DAILY MAIL) In BOOGIE UP THE RIVER, man and dog take to the water to trace the source of the Thames in a siff of the same vintage as Three Men in a Boat.