WALKING ROUND COAST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22332, 1 February 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)

WALKING ROUND COAST

ENGLISHMAN'S LONG TREK Believed to be the only man to walk round the entire coast of England, Mr. Edmund Vale completed the final 100 miles from the Isle of Wight to Dover a few weeks ago. It has taken him six yearn. Ho travelled with rucksack and tent. His dog carriod a groundsheet. A Norfolk man, Mr. Vale lives at present in the wild Welsh mountain pass of Nant Ffrancon, near Bangor. He has included tho coastal islands in his itinerary. Ho was storm-bound on Lundy for a week. Ho nearly lost his life in gaining the mainland from Holy Island after dark. While he was in tho South he made a detour to test inland marching by compass and crossed Dartmoor in a blanket of fog. •The coast along the Irish Sea he found the most picturesque; tho Lincolnshire coast the dullest; the Welsh the mildest. The " sweetest air " was in the apple-orchards of the Wash; the most primitive life he found on the desolate Cardiganshire coast between New Quay and Cardigan. Here girls Baid " Good evening" to him, and food was cooked over turfa.