{"id":8422,"date":"2013-03-08T09:26:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T09:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:14:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:14:16","slug":"booking-open-for-angus-glens-walking-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/booking-open-for-angus-glens-walking-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Booking open for Angus Glens Walking Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_3699\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/corriefee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/corriefee.jpg\" alt=\"Corrie Fee\" width=\"310\" height=\"208\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3699\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corrie Fee<\/p><\/div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">The Angus\u00a0Glens\u00a0Walking Festival has launched its online booking system for the 2013 event.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">The four day walking festival, which is in it&#8217;s 11th<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0year, is being held from Thursday 30<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0May to Sunday 2<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0June, and offers a programme of 27 walks suitable for different abilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">The walks are graded from &#8216;easy&#8217; to &#8216;extremely strenuous&#8217; so participants can choose walks best suited to their fitness and ability.\u00a0There are also three all ability walks which are on level, well maintained paths which are suitable for wheelchairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">\u201cOur walk leaders and Countryside Rangers have been working hard to put together a fantastic programme of walks for this year\u2019s festival\u201d, said Tom McGrath, Chair of the Festival.\u00a0 \u201cThis year we have included a number of new walks, including a strenuous circular walk in\u00a0Glen\u00a0Prosen and a picturesque moderate walk along the banks of Loch Shandra.\u00a0 Every year we try to introduce something different for our visitors and this year is no exception, with a stalker outing in\u00a0Glen\u00a0Esk, where the group will get up close to the resident wild\u00a0Red Deer\u00a0herds and other wild inhabitants of the moorland.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">Tom continues, \u201cThis year we have also changed the format of the evening events.\u00a0 The ever-popular ceilidh will still be taking place on the Saturday night at Kirriemuir Town Hall, with a top local band providing the entertainment, and a hearty &#8216;Taste of Angus&#8217; supper on offer.\u00a0 However, on the other evenings of the festival, participants will be free to meet up with friends old and new in the area\u2019s excellent restaurants, pubs and cafes.\u00a0 We are working with these businesses to provide special offers for walkers, so look out for these on the event website in the weeks leading up to the festival.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">To find out more and book your place on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/angus-glens.shtml\">Angus\u00a0Glens<\/a>\u00a0Walking Festival, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.angusglenswalkingfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.angusglenswalkingfestival.<wbr \/>com<\/a>\u00a0or pick up a programme in leisure centres, museums, tourist information offices and Access offices across\u00a0Angus. If you fancy exploring the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/angus-glens.shtml\">Angus Glens<\/a> under your own steam check out the routes available on Walkhighlands.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Angus\u00a0Glens\u00a0Walking Festival has launched its online booking system for the 2013 event.\u00a0The four day walking festival, which is in it&#8217;s 11th\u00a0year, is being held from Thursday 30\u00a0May to Sunday 2\u00a0June, and offers a programme of 27 walks suitable for different abilities. The walks are graded from &#8216;easy&#8217; to &#8216;extremely strenuous&#8217; so participants can choose walks best suited to their fitness and ability.\u00a0There are also three all ability walks which are on level, well maintained paths which are suitable for wheelchairs. \u201cOur walk leaders and Countryside Rangers have been working hard to put together a fantastic programme of walks for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/booking-open-for-angus-glens-walking-festival\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24564,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions\/24564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}