Your walks The first contribution comes from Colin Pickford. He writes: "Have a look at walking from Picket Post to the Alice Lisle then on to the red shoot and back through the woods to picket post. Its great on a real cold sharp morning".   "The Alice Lisle, Rockford Green, Nr Ringwood, Hampshire. Tel: 01425 474700. Large pub & restaurant that welcomes kids. Separate, friendly bar for those that have dogs but not kids. If you have both you need to use the large family garden. Good start for walks in the New Forest". (Pubs That Love Dogs) from Quercus2003@aol.com My favorite walk has to be on the Isle of Wight. The Annual Walk the Wight raises money for the local hospice with a choice of three walks starting from either Bembridge - Carisbrooke Castle, 12 miles, or from Carisbrooke Castle - Alum Bay, 16 miles, or the entire walk can be taken from Bembridge (in the east of the island) to Alum Bay (in the west), a total of 28 miles.  The walk takes in wonderful views across the central chalk downland of the island. This wonderful event is part of the 15 day Isle of Wight Walking Festival with some wonderful guided walks. This year the festival will be between 10th - 25th May, with the Walk the Wight on Sunday 18th May. From David Keen The Coast to Coast walk (from St. Bee's head in Cumbria to Robin Hood's Bayin Yorkshire) is the nicest walk I have done. At something like 192 miles it fits easily into a fortnight's holiday, and it goes through very varied scenery, including crossing three National Parks. (That's three of the original NPs, not the new second-string ones that are being foisted on us now).   One of the nice things about it is that, although only 2 of us set off together, since many people make a weekend start you meet plenty of otherwalkers time and again, and it developed into a bit of a rolling pub crawl. We had a memorable night at the Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge (well known to generations of walkers), and 15 of us ended up together celebrating our arrival at Robin Hood's Bay.   Another good and very enjoyable walk is the West Highland Way, which isabout 96 miles from Milngavie to Fort William. We did this when I was in my early 50s at 20 miles a day, which is quite feasible as the going is pretty easy apart from one day. There are only 2 modest climbs, the highest point being the Devil's Staircase (which we did in torrential rain), but this is nowhere near as high as several peaks one crosses on the Coast to Coast. For most of the Way the scenery is splendid. One convenient point is that there are trains back from Fort William to Glasgow, making the leaving of car at the start, and being rejoined with it again, quite easy. David   Be the next to contribute your favourite walk, anywhere in the world, UK, New Forest or Salisbury and South Wessex areas - mail me by clicking the postbox below. (Remove NOSPAM from the address to get to me)