Stirling to Limekilns is a tricky walk. You either stay high hugging the Ochil mountains and then dash south, or you weave your way through the Carse of Forth attempting to avoid the big towns.

Either way, it’s not easy to find a path that doesn’t involve walking down busy noisy roads or trudging along a very straight and boring cycle path.

Life is not made any easier by the huge number of golf courses in the area that have to be walked around rather than traversed. Perhaps this is another data set (golf course locations & dimensions) that Jo could work into his mashup.

The good news is that we did find a solution to the problem of finding a pleasant but not impossible off-road route. We dropped into the local pub. Invariably, the old guys at the bar know all about the secret paths, shortcuts and the cross-country routes that get  you to the next pub.

I was up in Pembrokeshire recently and the entire Dylan Thomas Trail seemed like a series of pub walks and was none the worse for that. You actually end up travelling bye-ways that feel ancient and almost folkloric. So not the official Kidnapped Trail, perhaps, but no doubt a route that Alan Breck might approve of.

Perhaps you’d like to share with us your favourite (or outlandish) route to a pub?

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