It started with a warning: “Weaklings and novices must expect to perish.” Guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright…
Tag: Walking holidays
Peak cabin: a fire-spotter’s lonely vantage point in Washington state | Travel
A few years ago, I travelled to the Cascade mountains of Washington state to research fire…
Why an everyday English field is my tranquillity base | Travel
Last January I started a new part-time job on a landscape scheme in the medieval hunting…
A foraging trip for flavours and peace of mind in Epping Forest | Travel
“It was like pushing my way through to Narnia,” said Steve Woolnough of his secret find…
‘Sound walks’ offer a new way to travel in lockdown | Travel
The bear’s throaty growl starts to my right, then circles predatorily around to my left as…
Once upon a time … there was a magical storytelling walk in a Sussex forest | Travel
It’s a sunny late-autumn morning in woodlands on the outskirts of Lewes, East Sussex, and I’m…
I walk around London at midnight – with my father’s ghost for company | Barbara Nadel | Travel
The magic takes hold as soon as I step into All Hallows by the Tower churchyard.…
Cast-iron classics: six great walks along Britain’s industrial waterways | Travel
With a back catalogue stretching deep into the past, Britain has a wealth of riveting walks…
A glorious stroll along the Wye’s remote pools and rapids | Travel
I was looking down at the River Wye from Boughrood bridge on a sunny autumn morning…
The best places to spot UK wildlife in winter | Travel
One deep midwinter evening by the River Ouse, I sat down on a fallen tree trunk…