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Kit Parks
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Train For Your Adventure Ask Becki at Trailblazer Wellness to customize an at home, online personal training program for your upcoming adventure using whatever equipment you already have! You'll get phone consultations, instruction videos and a plan to give you the best chance of success. Becki offers a FREE initial phone consultation to see if you are a good fit. AND she offers ATA listeners a 10% discount!
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Go West with Steve Silk | Cycling Adventure Across Britain's West Country
Join Active Travel Adventures as we chat with Steve Silk about his new book Go West and his 300-mile cycling journey through Britain's backroads, coastlines, and countryside. Discover how slow travel reveals adventure and meaning on two wheels.
You'll hear fascinating stories, legends and learn some of the history along Steve's adventure and come away inspired to create your own grand adventure, whether by bike, foot or cia paddling.
🚴♀️ Ride Into Britain's Past — One Pedal Stroke at a TimeIn this episode of Active Travel Adventures, host Kit Parks sits down with British journalist and adventurer Steve Silk, author of the captivating new book Go West: Adventure Cycling Through Britain's Past.
Steve's journey follows winding country lanes and scenic coastal climbs. Along the way, he encounters farmers, ferrymen, and fellow wanderers—each sharing stories that bring Britain's western landscapes to life.
"When you travel slowly—by bike or by foot—you see how the land shapes people, and how people shape the land." – Steve Silk
COMPLETE SHOW NOTES See important links for planning your own adventure, photos, and more cool info about today's show.
🗺️ What You'll Discover in This Episode-
How Steve designed his route
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The most memorable stretches through Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset
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Hidden inns, fishing ports, and countryside cafés perfect for cyclists
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Why slow travel and self-propelled adventures deepen cultural understanding
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Tips for planning your own multi-day cycling tour
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What Britain's backroads teach us about resilience, simplicity, and wonder
Steve Silk is a British writer, journalist, and lifelong cyclist passionate about exploring the intersection of landscape and story. His best selling first book, The Great North Road, retraced Britain's most famous coaching route from London to Edinburgh.
In Go West, Steve turns toward the Atlantic, pedaling 300 miles across fields, moors, and coastline to rediscover the spirit of Britain's West Country.
COMPLETE SHOW NOTES See important links for planning your own adventure, photos, and more cool info about today's show.
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Saily Affordable eSIM Overseas Mobile Phone Plans - No need to insert a physical SIM card when you travel. Buy just the data you need to avoid expensive roaming charges. Use Promo Code SPECIAL5 to save 5%
Travel Insurance: Quickly and easily compare rates and policies from different companies - no need to give any identifying information unless you decide to buy! The best way to find the right policy for your adventures.
Train For Your Adventure Ask Becki at Trailblazer Wellness to customize an at home, online personal training program for your upcoming adventure using whatever equipment you already have! You'll get phone consultations, instruction videos and a plan to give you the best chance of success. Becki offers a FREE initial phone consultation to see if you are a good fit. AND she offers ATA listeners a 10% discount!
Buy Me a Beer Want to support the program? You can always buy me a coffee or beer - thanks!
Amazon Kit's Picks Please use my Amazon link to access your Amazon account. Even if you don't purchase any of my recommendations, I get credit for anything you DO purchase - at no additional cost to you, you'll be helping to support the show and keeping it AD FREE:)
📚 Resources Mentioned-
Book: Go West: Adventure Cycling Through Britain's Past by Steve Silk
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Steve's Website: stevesilk.co.uk
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Previous Book: The Great North Road
Get your copy today: 👉 Amazon or your local independent bookstore.
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We continue our long distance walk through some of England's most picturesque landscapes in Part II of our Cotswold Way walking holiday.
You'll learn what you'll see and learn about what it's like to take a long walking holiday.
There are long distance walks and paths throughout Europe and the Cotswold Way is considered one of the prettiest! The entire walk takes about two weeks, but you can customize it to be longer or shorter, or just do part of it.
A company can plan your logistics, booking charming inns for you and best of all, arranged for your main luggage to be moved to your next lodging each day so all you ahve to do is carry your daypack! I recommend my affiliate, One Foot Abroad. Email me for the current Promo Code! They offer amazing walking vacations across Europe both guided and self-guided.
On this self-guided tour, you are provided with a map, an app and 24/7 phone support.
COMPLETE SHOW NOTES See important links for planning your adventure, photos, videos and more cool info about today's show.
Get FREE Travel Planners, Checklists and Packing Lists for ATA adventures (and each month you will get an email from Kit with links to all future Travel Planners (no spam promise!). Get the monthly newsletter here.
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Saily Affordable eSIM Overseas Mobile Phone Plans - No need to insert a physical SIM card when you travel. Buy just the data you need to avoid expensive roaming charges. Use Promo Code SPECIAL5 to save 5%
Travel Insurance: Quickly and easily compare rates and policies from different companies - no need to give any identifying information unless you decide to buy! The best way to find the right policy for your adventures.
Train For Your Adventure Ask Becki at Trailblazer Wellness to customize an at home, online personal training program for your upcoming adventure using whatever equipment you already have! You'll get phone consultations, instruction videos and a plan to give you the best chance of success. Becki offers a FREE initial phone consultation to see if you are a good fit. AND she offers ATA listeners a 10% discount!
Buy Me a Beer Want to support the program? You can always buy me a coffee or beer - thanks!
Amazon Kit's Picks Please use my Amazon link to access your Amazon account. Even if you don't purchase any of my recommendations, I get credit for anything you DO purchase - at no additional cost to you, you'll be helping to support the show and keeping it AD FREE:)
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Today we head to the UK to do a delightful long distance walk through some of England's most picturesque landscapes in Part I of our Cotswold Way walking holiday.
You'll learn what you'll see and learn about what it's like to take a long walking holiday.
There are long distance walks and paths throughout Europe and the Cotswold Way is considered one of the prettiest! The entire walk takes about two weeks, but you can customize it to be longer or shorter, or just do part of it.
A company can plan your logistics, booking charming inns for you and best of all, arranged for your main luggage to be moved to your next lodging each day so all you ahve to do is carry your daypack! I recommend my affiliate, One Foot Abroad. Email me for the current Promo Code! They offer amazing walking vacations across Europe both guided and self-guided.
On this self-guided tour, you are provided with a map, an app and 24/7 phone support.
COMPLETE SHOW NOTES See important links for planning your adventure, photos, videos and more cool info about today's show.
Get FREE Travel Planners, Checklists and Packing Lists for ATA adventures (and each month you will get an email from Kit with links to all future Travel Planners (no spam promise!). Get the monthly newsletter here.
******* EMAIL ME FOR PROMO DISCOUNT CODES*****
Saily Affordable eSIM Overseas Mobile Phone Plans - No need to insert a physical SIM card when you travel. Buy just the data you need to avoid expensive roaming charges. Use Promo Code SPECIAL5 to save 5%
Travel Insurance: Quickly and easily compare rates and policies from different companies - no need to give any identifying information unless you decide to buy! The best way to find the right policy for your adventures.
Train For Your Adventure Ask Becki at Trailblazer Wellness to customize an at home, online personal training program for your upcoming adventure using whatever equipment you already have! You'll get phone consultations, instruction videos and a plan to give you the best chance of success. Becki offers a FREE initial phone consultation to see if you are a good fit. AND she offers ATA listeners a 10% discount!
Buy Me a Beer Want to support the program? You can always buy me a coffee or beer - thanks!
Amazon Kit's Picks Please use my Amazon link to access your Amazon account. Even if you don't purchase any of my recommendations, I get credit for anything you DO purchase - at no additional cost to you, you'll be helping to support the show and keeping it AD FREE:)
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In Part II of our Camino adventure, we, as a group of Active Travel Adventures listeners, walk "solo together' to complete the Portuguese Way Camino Coastal Route with the beautiful Spiritual Way Variant. We all had the same itinerary and lodging, but we could walk our own Camino, each day deciding whether to walk with others in the ATA group, solo or with new friends met along the way.
You'll learn what to expect when doing an El Camino ("The Way") to Santiago in Spain, where the relics of St. James are said to be buried under the magnificent cathedral.
You'll get plenty of tips and insights about planning and doing your own Camino or long distance walking holiday.
After concluding my solo-together group experience, I headed solo to Finisterre, another five days walk to the ocean, to the 0.00 km marker at 'The End of the Earth", where many 'pilgrims' would toss their ratty shoes in the sea and collect a shell to prove they'd completed their Camino.
Be sure to check out the webpage to get more details. Click here for COMPLETE SHOW NOTES See important links for planning your adventure, photos, videos and more cool info about today's show.
Get FREE Travel Planners, Checklists and Packing Lists for ATA adventures (and each month you will get an email from Kit with links to all future Travel Planners (no spam promise!). Get the monthly newsletter here.
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Saily Affordable eSIM Overseas Mobile Phone Plans - No need to insert a physical SIM card when you travel. Buy just the data you need to avoid expensive roaming charges. Use Promo Code SPECIAL5 to save 5%
Travel Insurance: Quickly and easily compare rates and policies from different companies - no need to give any identifying information unless you decide to buy! The best way to find the right policy for your adventures.
Train For Your Adventure Ask Becki at Trailblazer Wellness to customize an at home, online personal training program for your upcoming adventure using whatever equipment you already have! You'll get phone consultations, instruction videos and a plan to give you the best chance of success. Becki offers a FREE initial phone consultation to see if you are a good fit. AND she offers ATA listeners a 10% discount!
Buy Me a Beer Want to support the program? You can always buy me a coffee or beer - thanks!
Amazon Kit's Picks Please use my Amazon link to access your Amazon account. Even if you don't purchase any of my recommendations, I get credit for anything you DO purchase - at no additional cost to you, you'll be helping to support the show and keeping it AD FREE:)
SUBSCRIBE to Active Travel Adventures (fantastic adventure destinations)
Join the Active Travel Adventures Facebook Group
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