{"id":5644,"date":"2025-11-03T19:09:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/?page_id=5644"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:19:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:19:48","slug":"newcastle-way-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/newcastle-way-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Way – 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Castlewellan to Dundrum – 3rd November 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m taking a short break since I’m not able to head off to the sunshine for a week or so, for many different reasons, Anyway, I thought a quick three days doing the Newcastle Way and a stay at the Slieve Donard might just be the ticket and might relieve the stress a little. Things started cloudy and overcast with loads of rain near the end of the first day. But the temperatures stayed up around 15 or so degrees making things relatively pleasant.
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In Castlewellan and following these blue signs, though they were few and far between.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Down the valley towards Maghera then a right turn towards Dundrum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My view of the Mournes is not brilliant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I always thought Australian wines a new thing – eighties or nineties but no, here they are being pushed on the tiny village of Maghera betwen the wars.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Got wet. And will get wetter tomorrow but not a problem as long as the wind stays mild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Castlewellan to Dundrum – 3rd November 2025 I’m taking a short break since I’m not able to head off to the sunshine for a week or so, for many different reasons, Anyway, I thought a quick three days doing the Newcastle Way and a stay at the Slieve Donard might just be the ticket and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5644","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5647,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5644\/revisions\/5647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}