After almost 11 very happy years on the Isle of Man, I am moving back to England for a mixture of reasons – the most important to be closer to my family. I expect to move mid-end September and I shall be renting in Matlock for the time being.

I am holding two ‘Farewell Walks’, one on Saturday 31st August, which will be a longer walk starting at Laxey, taking the tram up Snaefell and walking back, hopefully over the tops into Laxey. A distance of about 7 miles. The second is on Monday 2nd September, and is a low level walk along the Heritage trail from St John’s to Peel, about 5 miles. Anyone who has been following my posts is welcome to join me on either day, but I do need to know if you want to come on the Snaefell walk in order to book the tram for the correct number of people. If you have not already received an email from me and would like to come along on either or both walks, please email me at grlockett@gmail.com and I’ll send you all details.

Obviously “gillsisleofmanwalks.blog” will not continue unless someone is interested in taking it over. I have been asked if I will set up a new blog ‘gillsderbyshirewalks’ and this is possible, in which case I will try and incorporate the existing Isle of Man walks into a special section on the new blog. I’ll let you know when I have set this up.

Thank you for your interest in my blog over the years and I hope some of you, if you are on island, will be able to join me to say cheerio.