For Christmas 2004, someone gave Dick and Gloria a copy of Nick Moon's bookoutlining the route of the Chiltern Way, a 215 km/133 mile circular walk around the Chiltern Hills. They asked if we would join them on the walk as we had all enjoyed walking the Ridgeway in 2003. For a variety of reasons, we did not make a start during 2005. We kept saying that we should do so, but life got in the way: no longer! At 01:30 today (July 2nd 2006), after a lot to eat and drink on a wonderfully warm evening in our garden, we watched the video we shot on that walk and decided to do the first stage of the Chiltern Way starting in 8.5 hours…