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	<title>Collected Musings of a Hill Wanderer &#187; Trip Reports</title>
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	<description>Thanks for dropping by. What is now my hillwalking blog started out as a place to put hillwalking trip reports and photo gallery update news. It has since blossomed from those beginnings to take on a life of its own, with the aforementioned being complemented by related topics such as plans for future outings, walking books, outdoors gear, weather, travel and the wonder of nature. Enjoy.</description>
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		<title>Sampling Kintyre with Arran and Cowal in View</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/07/14/sampling-kintyre-with-arran-and-cowal-in-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Met Office weather forecast for my few days in Arran and Argyll displayed an ever improving trend with Saturday being among the best of the lot. Of course, weather trends can change and there wasn&#39;t as much sun as predicted. However, that has its advantages because cloud shields you from the heat of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drier this time around</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/07/12/drier-this-time-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time I went to Arran, it was during an Easter weekend with a very mixed weather forecast. Despite that, I gained the satisfaction of getting to the top of the island&#39;s highest hill, Goatfell, and a bus ride around the island. What I cannot deny was the existence of low cloud and heavy rain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It wasn&#8217;t sunny everywhere, not that it mattered</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/06/28/it-wasnt-sunny-everywhere-not-that-it-mattered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Depending on where you were, this past weekend might have felt every bit a scorcher. However, if you were stood around Rest and Be Thankful on Sunday morning, it was not scorching sun that you would have experienced but a soaking from a conveyor belt&#160;dragging showers of rain through the surrounding hills. Having experienced this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edge</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/06/20/edge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheshire]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/?p=1555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There may have been wonderful sunny summer weather visiting us over the last few weeks but goings on in my professional life have meant that I haven&#39;t made the kind of use of it that is habitual for me. That&#39;s not to say that there haven&#39;t been restive escapes during the hurly burly. In fact, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still distracted</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/06/14/still-distracted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheshire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday should have seen me go further afield but another matter meant that I stayed at home. However, I didn&#39;t waste the wonderful weather that came to us entirely because I got out my bike and travelled along some of the local lanes; it&#39;s not the first time that&#160;the handy machine&#160;afforded a quick escape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catching some sun in Munster</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/05/28/catching-some-sun-in-munster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 19:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conwy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I crossed the Irish Sea for a more social visit to the southwest of the island where my parents live. While there was a spot of lawn-mowing, hedge-cutting and other bits and bobs to be done, there were chances for limited immersion in hill country too. Friday saw us heading to Gougane Barra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A drift away from brevity?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/05/17/a-drift-away-from-brevity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 11:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though sunny evenings were tempting, this past weekend has been one spent doing other things at home. Getting some trip reports out of the way were among those and the one on a recent trip to the Scottish Borders had me looking at entries from the early days of this blog. What struck me was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back savouring the variety of Scottish Borders countryside</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/05/15/back-savouring-the-variety-of-scottish-borders-countryside/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/05/15/back-savouring-the-variety-of-scottish-borders-countryside/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 14:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hillwalking]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/?p=1539</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s been a while since my last trip up there but last weekend saw me back in the Scottish Borders and sampling more of its attractive countryside. 2006 was when I last frequented these parts and so decided that it was high time for a return. Then, it was the turn of St. Mary&#39;s Loch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explorations of the Manx Coastline</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/05/14/explorations-of-the-manx-coastline/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/05/14/explorations-of-the-manx-coastline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 15:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/?p=1530</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last July, I popped over to a rainy Douglas on a day trip from Dublin but my only being in one place and and time limitations meant that the Isle of Man remained one of those places that to me are terra incognito. However, I did come away with guidebooks and travel timetables that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the Scottish Borders</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/05/10/revisiting-the-scottish-borders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 12:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/?p=1529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a bank holiday weekend spent expanding my explorations of the Isle of Man, last weekend allowed a getaway to a part of the world that I haven&#39;t really visited for nearly four years: the Scottish Borders. Since then, a new long distance trail has appeared on OS maps, the Borders Abbeys Way, and caused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Away on Manannan&#8217;s Isle</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/05/04/away-on-manannans-isle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/05/04/away-on-manannans-isle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 20:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a bank holiday weekend in prospect, I somehow managed to fix up a trip to the Isle of Man with some walking in mind. Though weather forecasts were mixed, I took the chance anyway and that even was after my drenching while on a day trip there. Manannan may be a mythical being who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Very alike but not the same</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/04/26/very-alike-but-not-the-same/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gwynedd]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/?p=1517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend has been a lazier one than the one before it when I took myself down to Dyffryn Ardudwy with the idea of walking to the top of Y Llethr. Fatigue had a lot to do with the stasis as did floundering with options as to what I could be doing; it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A developing pattern?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/04/19/a-developing-pattern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unusually for me, my walking escapades seem to involve my reaching more summits than usually has been the case. In fact, finding some sort of hummock to ascend has formed part of my planning in the last few months. The most recent example of this was an out and back hike to Y Llethr from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A weekend around Capel Curig</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/04/16/a-weekend-around-capel-curig/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/04/16/a-weekend-around-capel-curig/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With fine weather around and a good forecast, I made sure that I sorted something for the past weekend without letting it to the vagaries of Friday night planning, an at times&#160;fragile activity that is vulnerable to tiredness after a hard working week. Much to my surprise, I managed to book a bed in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over moor and along vale</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/04/12/over-moor-and-along-vale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/04/12/over-moor-and-along-vale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Derbyshire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather that came our way this Easter was of lesser calibre than what we got last year. On Good Friday, I needed to go somewhere on my bike and I got a drenching on the way there and back so I might be excused for not heading into the hills on that day. Though [...]]]></description>
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