The Hidden Gems blogpost is now written. The 30km adventure starts with a large red dragon and ends with a small velvet swimming crab.
It was a good way to pass the time on the long train journey home in the rain! I seemed to have picked a sunny weather window for the walk. Or perhaps that was summer, come and gone?
Thanks for reading! 🥾 🗺️ 🌊 🏴
The king kisses the knight, as does the Queen,
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Then many true knights who came up to greet him
And ask how he’d fared; and he tells of the marvels
Confesses the hardships that he had endured
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Caliban speaks to Stephano and Trinculo, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, III.ii
Ready to drop upon me
May our journey be lived in peace with one another, and with creation
Thanksgiving Prayer
Bright-eyed freedom stands before ye
From the Welsh folksong ‘Gorhoffedd Gwŷr Harlech—March of the Men of Harlech’ [taken completely out of context]
Hiding in plain sight
Leo the tree surgeon
Walking The Landscape 