{"id":5662,"date":"2025-11-04T18:59:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/?page_id=5662"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:49:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:49:38","slug":"newcastle-way-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/newcastle-way-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Way – 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bryansford to Newcastle – 4th November 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today stayed much drier than I was expecting, which was nice. Started at Tollymore Forest in Bryansford, circumnavigated the forest then down into Newcastle and along to the hotel to join up with the bit I did in May from there to Dundrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The start in Tullymore – actually the exit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Down the hill. I never like loosing height first thing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The colours are outstanding. Though I never knew that the Scots Pines turned orange in the Autumn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A nice forest path and the glorious autumnal trees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Along the Shimna river for a time which I will meet again down in Newcastle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some bits are now a wasteland of cut trunks. The smell of the pine is overpowering.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I waited \u00a35 at the ready but no one showed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Can’t see very much more than yesterday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A memorial. I do wonder if it will get buried under a pile of stones set down by passing walkers and achieve a sort of monument status.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Newcastle and in the distance the red brick Slieve Donard at the finish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The mountain itself remains elusive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The swans and ducks at the boating lakes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Shimna River emptying into the sea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I quite enjoyed today, despite having a bit of a moment in the middle of the night when I nearly packed up and went home. So uncomfortable and driven by something, I stuck it out in the end and did today on very little sleep. Still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bryansford to Newcastle – 4th November 2025 Today stayed much drier than I was expecting, which was nice. Started at Tollymore Forest in Bryansford, circumnavigated the forest then down into Newcastle and along to the hotel to join up with the bit I did in May from there to Dundrum. I quite enjoyed today, despite […]<\/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-5662","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5662","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=5662"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5670,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5662\/revisions\/5670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}