To walk the earth...
A long distance walk is a serious affair. You shake up every atom of your being. You arrive footsore, at your destination: lighter, shorter, hungrier. A stranger to those who stayed at home. Head emptied of old fears. With room made for the new.
Iain Sinclair
There's going to be a brief-ish period of silence around here for a bit as myself, mook (mythic progenitor of this site) and another are off on a long arduous walk. Well, I say long, it is in fact only 60 miles and we have four days; and I say arduous when in fact it's mostly flat. And we're staying in pubs each night so we have the lure of beer to pull us along each day... The walk is from Windsor to Winchester, via Odiham, and loosely follows the route King John used to take when visiting Winchester from his stronghold at Windsor Castle. It's thought that he rode out from Odiham for his first meeting with the Barons at Runnymede. If anything interesting comes of this madness I'll post it up here. But for now we retreat into England's green ways and await the coming of Wodwo...