Tag: walking

The Solitary Traveller IV: The South Downs Way

Posted by | Published on October 1, 2015

The name ‘Sussex’ derives from the Kingdom of Sussex, according to legend it was founded by Ælle of Sussex in 477 AD, then in 825 […] 

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The Solitary Traveller: The Lake District

Posted by | Published on September 21, 2015

“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveller.”                       […] 

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The solitary walker: travelling and learning

Posted by | Published on August 10, 2013

Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters finally in conversation […] 

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The Cumbria Way

Posted by | Published on July 26, 2013

My walk through Cumbria, in England, has been everything I hoped and the weather smiled benevolently for the whole journey. Unbelievably, my goretex remained in the […] 

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