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The Edge of Cymru: A Journey – by Julie Brominicks

Book Review – March 2023 Like biodiversity, Cymraeg survives, but only just, sustained by the farming community, championed by campaigners, enabled by legislators. A language survey in 2013-2015 found only 24 percent of the population spoke Cymraeg – but that … Continue reading

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Resurrection River by Pete Evans

Book Review – January 2023 The Alun is a river of tranquillity, of droughts, floods and trade; fortunes made and lost. At times it doesn’t exist at all and yet at the same time it is two rivers! For anyone … Continue reading

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Edging the City by Peter Finch

Book Review – January 2023 Circumnavigating the city and then writing home had been on my mind ever since I’d encountered Iain Sinclair’s walk around the M25, London Orbital, which came out in 2002. But it was the Covid crisis … Continue reading

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The Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker by Merlin Coverley

Book Review – December 2022 For such a seemingly innocuous activity, and one which is commonly conducted with the participant largely oblivious to its operation, the act of walking has aquired a surprising degree of cultural significance. This is a … Continue reading

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Every Day until Antwerp: A Walking Trip along the Railway Line by Jacqueline Schoemaker

Book Review – January 2022 Traffic arteries intersect. Megastores, stench and dust. Trucks thunder along the asphalt towards the motorway. Boels Rental, Esso Express (‘diesel only’). The road slopes upwards and becomes a bridge across the Albert Canal. A monumental … Continue reading

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Westering: Footways and folkways from Norfolk to the Welsh coast by Laurence Mitchell

Book Review – December 2021 The idea was to drift west, to etch a furrow in the map of England and Wales. My plan was to walk coast to coast across the country with some sort of agenda, to follow … Continue reading

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Midges, Maps & Muesli by Helen Krasner

Book Review – November 2021 I met Helen Krasner briefly many years ago, not long after she had completed her epic walk around the coastline of Britain, which she talked about, but several years  before she published her account of … Continue reading

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I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi

Book Review – August 2021 Warning: This review includes a quote of the racist expletives used by the perpetrator of a hate crime. According to the CPRE, just 1% of visitors to England’s National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural … Continue reading

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A Figure Walks

A figure walks behind you Shadow walks behind you Figure walks behind you Shadow walks behind you We have a local lockdown where I live which means we can’t leave the county borough without good reason. Fortunately for me, as … Continue reading

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The Two Moors Way: Part 4

All the beauty of the spring went for happy men to think of all the increase of the year was for other eyes to mark. Not a sign of any sunrise for me from my fount of life; not a … Continue reading

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