Circular from Cuckmere Haven, Sussex, 6.2 miles, 100 m climb

 A familiar walk that starts in the National Trust centre at Exceat, conveniently on a 12X bus route from Brighton and takes in field paths down towards the beach at Cuckmere, with wonderful views of the Seven Sisters cliffs. A truly autumn landscape of ripe berries, white and gold dry grasses against a blue sea and sky. 5*

Circular from Lugan, France, 5.5 miles 60 m climb

A walk recommended from the Chateau Garinie, where we were staying, via the quiet village of Lugan, along country lanes with purple plums falling from the trees and through shady woods with an ancient water mill. Slightly difficult walk due to lack of decent directions and GPS and highly prevalent biting insects among the trees, but in a beautiful part of France. 3*

Sefton Coastal Path and Formby Beach, 9.5 miles

Why have we not walked here before? It’s easy to get to by train in less than 40 minutes, with stations all along the route. Relatively quiet sand dunes and sandy beaches, great views of Liverpool and the Welsh coastline. In the summer the route is carpeted with wild sweet peas. At the right time of day, you can swim in the sea and there’s a great café in the National Trust car park. 4*

Three days of walking on the Gower Peninsula: about 23 miles, 500m total 

We enjoyed discovering the Gower Way, with is worth revisiting. One of the circular walks started at Nicholaston and via the Gower Way passed through Oxwich Bay (sea swimming there). Another one involved climbing up Rhossili Down and walking round the headland to Mewslade (more swimming). 5*

Two days of walking from Hartington, Derbyshire, 20 miles, about 200 m total

DAnother enjoyable Long Walkers adventure. 5*

Flint circular, 7.5 miles, 200 m climb

Re-visiting some of the Wales Coastal Path, albeit one of the bits nearest to home and not the most scenic or exciting, but with a detour inland to climb and take in views of the Wirral and Hilbre Island. The weather wasn't kind for the first half, which involves a long stretch alongside the coastal wall from the Duke of Lancaster still rusting in the harbour. The route then goes inland via the Greenfield Industrial Heritage site (always interesting) and climbs to follow paths parallel to the coastline on 'The Moor' (very muddy) above, before descending back to parking and convenient tearoom in the Abakhan complex. A good manageable walk but better on a dry day. 3*

Dyserth circular via Cwm, 7 miles 300 + 200 m climbs

Early Spring and we cover a figure of eight that includes part of Offa’s Dyke and part of the Clwydian Way.  Apart from those stretches, it turns out we had done some other parts of the walk before (about 5 years ago) and then had added a further 3 miles to it.

The paths were fairly muddy, as expected, but the sun shone all day and the views over to Prestatyn from the top of Moel Hiraddug were worth the climb.  We saw no other walkers the whole day, but lots of newborn lambs and spring flowers. 

Also worth remembering on this one is the convenient location halfway of the Blue Lion at Cwm, which has changed hands recently and is much improved from how we remember it. 4*