This page is intended to give a little information on my personal background for anyone who may be interested. My name is Gary and I live with my wife Ann in the south of Tenerife. Although we moved here from Milton Keynes in the UK, I am originally from Luton in Bedfordshire and some of my family still live in the town. I originally became interested in walking almost by accident. I had tried other forms of exercise in an effort to keep fit but had found them boring. I eventually started walking in the local countryside just outside of Luton and as the walks became longer and my interest grew, I began to investigate more interesting and exotic locations. I have since come to love walking and have in the past taken part in challenge walks of up to 30 miles in a day, wild camping trips in the Scottish Highlands and multi-day hikes such as a solo traverse of the Coast to Coast walk across England as well as a similar trip along the Southern Upland Way in Scotland. My experiences on both of these long-distance paths are featured at the bottom of this page, along with details of a trip led by myself along The Wainwright Memorial Walk in the Lake District. Beside walking alone and with my wife Ann, when we lived in the UK, we were members of The Ramblers Association and walked with the local group in Milton Keynes, which Ann and myself joined in 1996. As well as editing the groups newsletter, I regularly led walks and we both joined in with the regular organised weekends away. These took us all over the country and we have walked in most of the more 'classic' walking areas such as The Lake District and the The Peak District, among others. Personally, one of my favourite areas for walking in the UK is The Chilterns. This was the area where I first started 'serious' walking, partly because of the area's close proximity to my home, but also because I still find it a wonderful destination to walk in.
We have long had a love of Tenerife and in January of 2008 this year we moved permanently to the island. We love the climate which is superb all year round and the island is blessed with wonderful mountain scenery. Before relocating I organised a number of successful group trips for walkers in Tenerife and Gran Canaria and this, combined with my love of walking and Tenerife has led me to set-up the programme of walks in the covering most of the island. The service is totally flexible to enable you to design a walking holiday to suit you and your friends by choosing from a varied range of walks suitable for all abilities. Since living here, I have taken many walkers out exploring Tenerife and met and made friends with many people, some of whose comments you can find here.
I have now written a guidebook of walks in the south of the island called 'Discovering Tenerife on Foot', which will be available in print soon. In the meantime the walks featured in the book are available to purchase in electronic form as PDF downloads from this website. This means that you can have the walks delivered direct to your computer to print off as and when you want them.
Finally, I hope you can join me on a walk at some point in the future so that I can share with you all of the wonderful places I have found whilst walking on this beautiful island.
The Coast to Coast Walk The Southern Upland Way The Wainwright Memorial Walk
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