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THE E2

The SUW forms a significant part of the E2, which is one of several ultra-long-distance walking trails through Europe. The E2 is 2910 miles (4850km) in length and runs from Nice in southern France to Galway in Ireland. From Nice it travels north through the Alps, Jura, Vosges, Alsace-Lorraine, Luxembourg, Belgium and Holland. On the British side of the Channel there are two alternative routes through England, one from Dover and one from Harwich. These join at Kirk Yetholm, the northern terminus of the Pennine Way. In Scotland the E2 follows St Cuthbert’s Way to Melrose where it picks up the SUW Way, which it follows all the way west to Stranraer. A ferry then leads to Ireland for the last stages of this mammoth walk, which ends at the Atlantic on the Galway coast. As a walk of a lifetime, the E2 through Europe can be thoroughly recommended as it passes through a tremendous variety of landscapes and cultures, from the polders of Holland to the high Alps of France, from the fen country of East Anglia to the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Signs for the E2 will be seen in the Borders attached to SUW signposts. Alan Castle, author of the original edition of this book, is one of very few to have walked the E2 in its entirety.