For centuries the Lea has been a vital artery for London, carrying drinking water and grain into the city and servicing the factories and gunpowder mills that grew up along its banks. Rising in Bedfordshire, it flows for 46 miles through Hertfordshire and north-east London, eventually reaching the Thames. It’s …
Read More »James Carville Once Again Douses Democrats In Reality: Young Voter Are Walking Away From Biden In Droves
Screenshot/johnny maga x Veteran Democratic campaign strategist James Carville warned in a video on Sunday that the trend of young people saying they will not support Democrats is a serious problem for the party. Some even described it as a panic video. Veteran Dem strategist James Carville on the Democrat …
Read More »Cornwall’s very own Camino: walking the St Michael’s Way
It’s dawn when we step off the train at Lelant, a village tucked into a bay near St Ives. The early morning light is still intensifying as the distinctive, repetitive shrill of a song thrush wakes this sleepy corner of west Cornwall. I’m in Cornwall with a friend to walk a pilgrim path …
Read More »My hammock was my window on to the valley: a new type of walking trail in the Swiss Alps
It was a summer’s morning in the Lepontine Alps in Ticino, Switzerland’s Italian-speaking canton, and there was the vague threat of a storm on the horizon. I was already out on a trail through larch and hazelnut forest, backpack shouldered, aiming for a mountain pass. Up ahead, a herd of short-haired goats …
Read More »Why high heels are better for your walking step than flat shoes
Here’s why high-heeled shoes are better for you. A biomechanics study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology investigated the effects of wearing high heels for several months. Surprisingly, the participants, both women and men who wore heels regularly, walked better and more efficiently after the study, not only in …
Read More »10 of the best British walking festivals
Crickhowell Walking Festival, Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) 9-17 March One of the earliest of the year’s festivals, the charming town of Crickhowell, surrounded by the looming khaki-purple hues of the Bannau Brycheiniog national park (Brecon Beacons), has a well-established walking festival, which this year boasts 81 different walks, ranging from …
Read More »Walking ancient Dorset paths to megaliths – and a village pub
With Stonehenge, Avebury and Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire is the English county most associated with Neolithic stone circles and barrows. Dorset, its southerly neighbour, has nothing on this scale, but there is an ancient quarry – the Valley of the Stones – and a number of smaller, but equally atmospheric archaeological …
Read More »Walking through the Yorkshire Wolds to a great village pub: the Goodmanham Arms
All Hallows Church in the village of Goodmanham is where the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria’s kingdom to Christianity began in 627. Edwin had already embraced the new religion in nearby York, and to seal the deal the pagan temple that stood at Goodmanham was destroyed by his high priest, Coifi. This …
Read More »Italian rally champion, Giulia Maroni 'dies after plummeting 164 ft while walking her dog on the Modena Apennines'
Italian rally champion, Giulia Maroni has reportedly died after plummeting 164 feet while walking her dog on the Modena Apennines. The 37-year-old was said to be out walking her dog with her partner Simona Panzacchi on Sunday afternoon when she slipped and fell off the mountain edge. …
Read More »‘She started walking’: Aussie fumes over ball girl blunder
Australia’s Max Purcell vented angrily at a ball girl before regaining his composure for a breakthrough singles win on Tuesday. Purcell, who won the 2022 Wimbledon doubles title with Matthew Ebden, was distracted by a ball girl’s movement during the fourth set of his 3-6, 7-6, 6-4, 7-5 victory over …
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