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The things you don’t expect!

Long-distance walking provides lots of opportunities for the unexpected including record-breaking marriages, coming across a scarecrow festival and an unexpected little home. However, make sure you keep all the rules at campsites and also at churches…

  • Coming across one of those magnificent men in their flying machines at a scarecrow festival in the west of England
  • It’s important to keep all the rules when at a campsite…
  • And also when visiting churches!
  • In Cwmbran (Cwmbrân) in south Wales, the gravestone of Elizabeth and Thomas Morgan who, until recently, held the record for the longest marriage in Britain
  • For a moment, I thought this was real…On a canal tow-path in south Wales

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