Your capital walking guide in and beyond London
At the back end of 2021, a book called Walks for each Season (Julia Smith — 9781739986704) was published: I fell upon it in the spring. Twenty-six walks starting and finishing at a station easily accessible from London, matching the routes with seasonal interest.
Thus far, I declare the book to be a winner.
Memories of Fife with the reading of a revised guide to the Fife Coastal Path.
George Orwell tried to describe his perfect pub, which he called The Moon under Water — drawing together the best parts of other pubs: his perfect pub never existed. Nor are any of the pubs with that name anywhere near perfect. Not from that company. Bill Bryson, in The Lost Continent, sought out the quintessentialContinue reading “The perfect guide-book”
The pandemic has curtailed my walking almost to zero: the 2019 Spring Bank Holiday weekend gave me more walking distance than the ten months since mid-February 2020. However, I have been walking, albeit sedentarily and in my mind, all year. I have been designing walks from 5km in length to 1500km in front of theContinue reading “Armchair walking”
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