The inspiration to walk the length of the Tyne came at an exhibition of Richard Long’s work in Edinburgh in August 2007. A number of the works on display referred to long distance walks including river walks and Pauline C told us that she’d just finished walking the Thames with the local Ramblers’ Association.
It wasn’t until almost a year later though that we came upon J B Jonas’s book “Walking the Tyne: twenty-five walks from mouth to source”. The following Saturday relatively fine weather was forecast in an otherwise dire summer and we were off.
