Six new walks on my website

I've just updated my website with six new walks:

1033	London Loop: Erith to Farnborough, and then on to Chiselhurst	23.5	19/01/2019
1032	London Loop from Rainham to Purfleet, then on to Basildon and Pitsea	23.6	12/01/2019
1031	London Loop: Loughton to Rainham	23.7	05/01/2019
1030	London Loop: High Barnet to Loughton	20.7	01/01/2019
1029	Ebor Way: York to Wetherby	23.3	28/12/2018
1028	Gipping Valley River Path: Stowmarket to Ipswich	20.9	22/12/2018

There are one in Suffolk and another in Yorkshire to complete 2018, and four around the London Loop to start 2019.

I've also fixed a few bugs that were preventing links from working on the named walk pages.

Lack of walking

As some people have noticed, I have not been updating my walking website. The reason for this is simple: for almost a year, I haven't been doing any long walks.

There are several reasons for this sad state of affairs, the main one being that I have a lower back problem that kicks in around the nine-mile mark of a walk.This problem has proved hard to cure, and has made walking with a backpack quite miserable.

I'm hopeful that I'll manage to shrug it off this spring. I'll be back on the hills soon, and at home writing walks up for the website (complete, of course, with the obligatory typos).

Parish notice

When I first put Google Maps onto my website a few years ago, I used version 2 of their maps API. Sadly Google now state that this version of the API is being deprecated, and that I have to move to the new version 3.

I have been rather hesitant to do this for a number of reasons, but with version 2 now out of use, I have had to bite the bullet and do the work. This involved an almost total rewrite of the code that displays the maps on the website. Hopefully this process is now complete, and you will not see any difference