LE-JOG-ed

Robin Richards, faced mid-life and redundancy by pulling on his rucksack and setting off to walk from Lands’ End to John O’Groats. Le-Jog-ed is his unique story, a travelogue of hill walking, redundancy and humour.

‘The longest walk you can do in Britain, without doubling back on yourself, is Land’s End to John O’Groats. And so on a misty, drizzly and frankly uninspiring morning I stepped off the bus at Land’s End with my boots blacked and my rucksack ready,’ recalls Robin. It was day sixteen of his redundancy when Robin started out on his quest and the subject matter of redundancy/early retirement and the trek itself is handled throughout with a light touch.

The walk from Land’s End to John O’Groats is iconic, and Robin uses the miles trekked to present an interesting, insightful and sensitive account that will appeal to all readers interested in this classic walk.

‘Writing a book about the walk and my experiences seemed to follow naturally because, by this point in my life, I’d been writing in one form or another since 1992... and there are not many books about redundant nursing lecturers taking a notion to walk Land’s End to John O’Groats!’ observes Robin, when talking about the inspiration for publishing his account.