Absence makes the heart grow fonder – proverbial
Land’s End to John O’Groats
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.
Continue reading Mens sana…The Map is not the Territory
A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness— Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity
Why Land’s End to John O’Groats?
One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things — Henry Miller
Walking The Landscape 