'I'm a walking expert - here is the most enchanting place in the UK for an autumn stroll'

Thomas described Autumn successful Loch Ness arsenic 'enchanting' (Image: Getty)

Walking the magnitude of the UK successful representation of her precocious mum, an adept walker explained she'd ne'er seen thing arsenic enchanting arsenic Loch Ness successful Scotland. 

Harriet Thomas' vivid statement connected her podcast brought to beingness the autumnal scene, utilizing "stunning" "magnetic" and "immense" to convey its beauty. 

She said: "I've gone done stunning woods with citrus yellowish leaves and bronzed moorland with airy pinkish heather. Glimpses of brooks done the trees and the immense Loch Ness made the full acquisition magnetic and enchanting."

The loch, steeped successful myths and legends, is immense indeed; stretching astir 23 miles and reaching depths of astir 755 feet, it's 1 of the largest freshwater lakes successful the UK by volume. It's besides location to a assortment of wildlife, including salmon and trout, arsenic good arsenic ospreys and herons.

The 61-year-old from Chichester is walking 900 miles connected a circular way from Land's End to John O'Groats successful the hopes of raising £25,000 for Dementia Adventure successful representation of her mum, Susan, who lived with dementia. 

Harriet is sharing the connection astir the healing benefits of quality (Image: Getty)

She’s sharing her travel connected The D Tour podcast, echoing the connection of Dementia Adventure which encourages radical to clasp the outdoors and bask the healing benefits of nature, conscionable arsenic her parent did.

She said: "When she had dementia, mum was calmer successful nature. It's a sensory place. The somesthesia of the air, the breeze successful her hairsbreadth and connected her face, the scents, the colour of flowers each seemed to airy her up. 

"She whitethorn person said thing each time but erstwhile we were smelling a rosemary works oregon listening to a bird, she would accidental ‘lovely’ oregon ‘beautiful’. 

"It was arsenic if quality touched the deepest portion of her that dementia couldn’t scope and I’m walking for Dementia Adventure truthful different families mightiness get the accidental to person akin experiences."

It was 1 of the astir beauteous places she visited (Image: Getty)

Susan was Baroness Thomas of Walliswood, a businesswoman and a Lib Dem adjacent earlier she passed distant aged 87 successful December 2023.

It is estimated that 982,000 radical unrecorded with dementia successful the UK, expected to emergence to 1.4 cardinal by 2040.