M & Ms big adventure

Not sure how many beers I had had over a Cornish meal with Mrs M but at some point or other, somehow or other we came up with a cunning plan for a joint challenge to keep us active and save us from premature senescence.

No matter how good Mrs M becomes on 3 wheels its unlikely she will be joining me going up (and much less likely down) any Alps

However she is a good walker and talking about this and what to do when we both have more time on our hands (as birds fly nests and we lay down tools) somehow we both hit on the idea of doing a long walk.

Its much better if any journey has a purpose (e.g. as my original plan to ride the tour) and Mrs M has always wanted to visit Iona, a (very) small island of another (slightly bigger) island off the north west coast of Scotland.

http://www.scotland-inverness.co.uk/iona.htm

So we put 2 and 2 together and came up with the idea of walking there (or at least the bits that did not involve boats). Originally the intention was to walk from home but we thought that may be a bit much so revised plan to start from Durham.

Plan was hatched Friday night and we spent much of a dismal Saturday buying some books and doing some first planning. On first appearences we seem to have lucked out. A route from Durham can make use of some of the long distance footpath network and, judging from Rough Guide advice on distance per day, a rough and ready route marked out on my Truckers atlas seems to show us needing about 30 days or to make the journey. So a pretty big challenge but well doable....time will no doubt tell but this blog will have to broaden into Mr Ms Iona Adventure some time over the next year or so...