I wrote a detailed article on the website Conservative Home today about what people talked about to me on the long walk north - space prevented a fuller piece but my 1000 words are set out here:
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2012/08/guy-opperman-is-conservative-mp-for-hexham-here-he-updates-conhome-readers-on-his-pennine-walk-and-his-bid-to-understand-wh.html