STEPHANIE Bradley has just hiked 2,000 miles around the England and Wales — with flip-flops on her feet.

The 45-year-old adventurer has spent the past six months spreading the Totnes eco message by walking around the country, without stout footwear but wearing her flimsy flip-flops.

She set off from the Market Square in Totnes in March and will arrive back in the square on Monday after completing her marathon hike.

Stephanie works for the Transition Town Totnes movement and during her walk she attempted to visit all the UK towns which are currently attempting to embrace the transition eco-ethos.

She has been collecting stories of what each project has been doing to bring back a strong sense of community.

The Transition Movement began life in Totnes four years ago and now consists of more than 350 towns, villages, and cities all over the country, with many more overseas. The focus of the movement is a positive approach to the challenges facing our world, climate change, rising oil prices, and lack of community focus.

Her route took her to Brighton and then north to York and Penrith, before heading south through visiting places as different as Wolverhampton, and Hay- on-Wye on the Welsh border.

"Every place has a positive story to tell," she said.

They included community garden projects such as Hayfields. In just three-and-a-half months a field has been transformed into a thriving produce garden supplying all the vegetables the group needs, and selling surplus to pay the rent on the field.

She also visited a community-owned hydro-electric powered housing scheme in Lancaster.

In the past month the walk has taken her through Somerset, across Dartmoor, and into Cornwall.

The final days of the walk will be through Saltash, Yealmpton, Ivybridge and Diptford with a last night spent at the Landmatters Allaleigh permaculture community, before coming back to Totnes.

Steph plans to write a book telling the tales of her adventure and is holding a storytelling event at Bowden House, Totnes, next Saturday, September 25.