I have come to a very very isolated spot, perhaps a little too far north of where David and Alan walk, but with a great view over the landscape and the route that Stevenson is suggesting.

As some of you may know, I have been out of contact for a few days now, quite simply because there is no decent net access or mobile reception (for Orange and O2 at least) anywhere in this part of the world.

Is this the kind of place that the Digital Britain report needs to be addressing?! I am well aware that I am meant to be hiding from the world at this point. So silence is to be expected. But there’s silence and there’s silence.

When I look at the footage I filmed whilst out there I realise that the isolation is driving me slightly mad. Thank God I have company for the next leg: Steve on Friday, then Freya and Ingrid on Saturday.

I’ve also had a mail from Andy G saying he’s up for walking the final stage with me from 20th-24th August. Huzzah! Little by little I am recruiting a merry band of fellow kidmappers. Join us!

BTW I *do* know that there are people blogging from canoes in the Pacific and from the South Pole etc, and that really if I were better kitted up, I would have no problem staying in touch.

But I wanted to travel light and use only the kind of kit that I could buy off the high street for a few hundred quid: an iphone, a Flip camera, a lightweight notebook PC as the basics; a snazzy GPS tracker from Decathlon as a treat; and a ton of free or low cost web accounts.

See? Soon you’ll all be doing this or something equivalent, rather than thinking of publishing as just another way of sitting in an artificially lit room staring at a screen.

*Please note all the Kidnapped posts have been transferred here from the original blog at https://timwright.typepad.com/kidmapper which no longer exists.

I have archived the comments from the original site but have not included them here. If you have any queries about this project, do get in touch.