Long walk to the pub

Former English brewery worker Mark Reid gave up his job, took up writing and succeeded in combining his two great passions of walking and pubs. The 31-year-old has written three books on walking in northern England, and is working on a fourth while organising guided walks in the Yorkshire Dales.

The Inn Way to the Yorkshire Dales describes a 120km walk, passing, or going into, 26 traditional pubs. A similar publication devoted to walks and pubs in England's Lake District was described by one magazine editor as the mother of all pub crawls - 44 pubs over 145km with bogs, apocalyptic weather and mad horses.

Reid says he aims to search out the country pubs, not the ones exclusively catering to the tourist trade.

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