Getting lost while walking

This seems to be a current theme of mine at the moment and I'm getting fed up with it! I've done two walks in two weeks and managed to get lost on both of them.

One of them was my own fault - I've started walking The Thames Path, and I was too busy chatting away to Jackie and I neglected to pay attention to where we should have been going. Fortunately (and completely coincidentally) we were in an area that Jackie's friend lives in and so she navigated us back to the Thames ( you would not believe how hard it can be to find the Thames sometimes!).

The second incident was this Saturday, walking one of the Time Out walks. The first time we got lost, I think I should have been more assertive, but the second time was just down to appalling instructions. Interestingly though, it is in the same area as another time I got lost walking with Julia (see that blog post here), so I think I have decided I'm going to give the Chilterns a miss from now on. Nice walking they may be, but I can't be doing with getting lost all the time. Oh - and a correction from that 2008 post - the Chilterns are not north London! AT ALL!

Anyhow - next up is a week in the Lake District so I'm going to try really hard to NOT GET LOST! Watch this space...

Photos from both walks on Flickr as well for anyone who hasn't spotted them on fb...