{"id":837395,"date":"2026-03-20T01:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/837395\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T01:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:49:13","slug":"i-walked-3700-miles-around-wales-and-from-wales-to-ukraine-following-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/837395\/","title":{"rendered":"I walked 3,700 miles around Wales &#8211; and from Wales to Ukraine &#8211; following cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ursula Martin will be at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.midborderarts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Assembly Rooms in Presteigne<\/a> on Sunday, April 12 at 3.30pm, for a fascinating and inspiring Mid Border Arts Sunday Session.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Doors open at 3pm.<\/p>\n<p>Ursula Martin never thought she would walk 3,700 miles around Wales, but following a cancer diagnosis it seemed like the only reasonable thing to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her best-selling book <a href=\"https:\/\/onewomanwalks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Woman Walks Wales<\/a>, documented this journey, but it was only the start of Ursula\u2019s ambition<\/p>\n<p>In an epic test of stamina, Ursula has since embarked on a 5,550 mile walk from Wales to Ukraine and back again, stopping off in countries such as Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Italy, France and Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In her new book, One Woman Walks Europe, she brings to life challenging landscapes and the people she met along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since publication, she has been walking from Land\u2019s End to John O\u2019Groats, calling in on bookshops along the way; she may arrive in a similar style for the Presteigne event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are \u00a38 and they are\u00a0available at The Workhouse Gallery, Presteigne or online at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wegottickets.com\/event\/682630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/wegottickets.com\/event\/682630<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ursula Martin will be at The Assembly Rooms in Presteigne on Sunday, April 12 at 3.30pm, for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,77,920,4884,379,12630,19287,12,20,8972,24788,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-837395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-events","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-local-hubs","13":"tag-mid-wales","14":"tag-mid-wales-entertainment","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-search","17":"tag-south-shropshire","18":"tag-theatre-and-comedy","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116258994212124360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}