We emerge from our car into a right pea souper. Fog hangs like a white veil across the wintry countryside. Everything looks hazy. Soon fine droplets start clinging to our hair and clothes forming a white layer.
A light, larger and brighter than a usual star shines brightly in the dark skies above Bath.
” Is that the international space station?” I ask David
Dawn was still to break as we headed towards Wiltshire by car with
Foot Trails team are regularly invited to speak as experts in local, regional, national and international press on matters from England’s rural economies to rural tourism, enterprise and of course walking and travel on foot.
I’m not sure what noise would best accompany the launch of a new walking holiday program. Perhaps not a fanfare of music but more a furious stamping of boots in quick succession….
Walking has made the front and prominent pages of some well known British newspapers today.
A new scientific research project has concluded that just 20 minutes walking a day can help us to live longer.
The words were simple but heartfelt this afternoon – “Outdoors is where my soul feels the most calm and relaxed.”
David and I were walking in Dorset earlier today. The sun was shining…
Three days of rain, heavier than we had seen for some time fell confidently in the days before Foot Trails debut Journey to the Stones guided day walk. Shame we said.
Foot Trails, west country and south west England walking specialist is launching a new series of expert led guided day walks in south west England this month.
I love my work for Foot Trails. But often after an active week I’m more than ready for a walk myself.
And that’s just what I mean by today’s subject title. Walking. Sometimes it takes commitment. Because it does.
Spring never starts suddenly. The classic tussle between the season many of us long to see and winter is not smooth. Winter is strong and doesn’t want to give up her reign.