Journeys
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A two-day hike through Shropshire and Powys
Two of the most sparsely populated and rural counties, but not far from the busy Midlands. The crew walk through a bright yellow landscape full of creatures
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I walked through the Cambrian Mountains in the footsteps of a Victorian snob
Author and 'extreme rambler' Ursula Martin compares her walk to George Borrow's 170 years ago. Will she be rude about redheads too?
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One year ago my best friend died. Why I’m setting out today to walk with my grief
From Brighton to Bradford via London and Leeds, linking up the the four places my friend Ro lived, and holding sessions for bereaved friends along the way
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“Wild like the end of the world, or the start of something”
One of us is going through a bad situation. After we’d raked through the hows and whens and whys, I asked what she was going to do now. “I want to walk. I just want to walk myself through it.”
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Artist Super Freak walks in the wrong direction: “No way Jose! We’re better than that!”
We sent risograph artists out to walk Slow Ways because why not?
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Midlife mappers: embracing friendship, commitment and the menopause on the muddy trail
Three school friends rekindle their sense of adventure, seeking freedom beyond work, family and menopause, on foot through the West Midlands
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Let architect Thom Brisco take you on a 100-mile tour of landscapes colonised by the Romans, settled by the Saxons, and raided by the Vikings, then fortified by the Normans and drained by the Dutch
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Walking and not-walking in Marseille
Poet Caleb Parkin reflects on movement and mobility – plus strange intertwinings with the Papal itinerary – in this shuffled deck of moments