To see the world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower – William Blake, ‘Auguries of Innocence‘
Author: baronvoncrow
How to walk 34 km: lessons we learnt today
Pasture and Pavements
I’d love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well. – Hugh Bonneville
Cornwall gets out the bunting
At Zennor one sees infinite Atlantic, all peacock-mingled colours, and the gorse is sunshine itself, already – D H Lawrence, letter to Katherine Mansfield and James Murray, Feb 1916.
Portheras Cove
The Odyssey Begins
All experience is an arch, wherethrough Gleams the untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. – Tennyson, ‘Ulysses’
Longships lighthouse, Land’s End
Saying Goodbye
The Day of Fear
An Army Marches on its Stomach
Dost thou think that because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? – Sir Toby Belch, Twelfth Night
…in corpore sano
You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body […]
that can endure any kind of toil […]
What I commend to you, you can give to yourself;
For assuredly, the only road to a life of peace is virtue. — Juvenal
Stephen posing right of frame – to provide scale.
Mens sana…
That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. — Jahumpa Lahiri
Given that at the moment the walk exists only in our imagination, a fair amount of the preparation has consisted of reading, not just about the End to End walk itself, but about walking in general, and about connected topics … like hedgerows and clouds.
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Walking The Landscape 