Steps in time: walking and writing and thinking

How an epic hike along an ancient English path in the footsteps of a famous writer reset my ideas about travel

England’s least useful gate, encountered in a field above Marlborough

In the last couple of blogs, I’ve written a lot about a lot of flying I’ve recently done. But now, let’s go from the fastest and most polluting form of travel to the slowest; and the one where the only footprint you leave is in the mud. Let’s relive a big walk. 

In the last week of Apri…