WalKington, Herefordshire

Ramblings

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Ali Allen takes Clare for a sunny hike just outside Kington, a town she would like to be renamed 'WalKington' because it's such a magnet for ramblers.

Ali runs a tiny walking shop where her dog, Roo, keeps a look out from the window display full of boots and socks and maps. She lived in Utah for thirty years, working as a nurse, but returned six years ago with no firm plan. Somehow she landed in the tiny town of Kington in Herefordshire where she opened her shop which now has a B&B above it, mostly serving ramblers trekking along Offa's Dyke. On today's walk she leads Clare up Bradnor Hill - crossing the highest 18 hole golf course in England - and onto a stretch of Offa's Dyke. On the way she shares her story of life and love in Utah, making a home back in the UK, and coping with rheumatoid arthritis which, despite the problems it causes, doesn't stop her outdoor adventures.

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0:38.1	The bunting is out in Kingston, multi-coloured, triangular blasts of colour,
0:44.4	hanging between the various shops, all different colours of the houses as well,
0:48.8	with black ruse. We've got a pink shop there and a white one and a yellow one.
0:52.9	There's a delicatessen, there's a coffee shop, and here white one and a yellow one there's a delicatessen there's a coffee shop and here is a
0:57.1	tiny little almost like an overgrown cupboard called the walking hub outside there are walking boots
1:04.4	with flower pots in them and I can't say I've ever seen this before in the window lots of boots
1:10.3	and a dog sat in the window.
1:13.6	And this, I think the dog is rude because I know that the shop belongs to Ali Allen.
1:19.6	Hello.
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