BBC Countryfile – March 2020
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Traveller’s joy
For most country lovers lucky enough to have full mobility, a walk ofers the perfect means to indulge a gentle wanderlust while exploring a landscape. Walks fulfil American poet-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson’s claim that:
“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”
What is a walk but a joyful journey (joyful unless you’re five miles from the pub at dusk in one of last January’s deluges)? The destination is often irrelevant. This issue we celebrate the thrill of travel – while under your own steam or that of a Victorian locomotive (see page 34). The latter is surely the finest way to explore the land while snugly cocooned in a comfortable, archaic carriage. I’ve lost count of the number of steam journeys I’ve taken where, upon reaching the final halt, I – andmost of my fellow passengers – have turned immediately around for the return trip.
We have o -road cycle rides to try (page 81), a long-distance walk along the Peak District’s River Derwent from mouth to source (page 20), an epic Lake land swimathon (page 52) and an amalgamation of foot, boat,car and cycle through the Western Isles in search of leviathans (page 42). Many thrills await.
Fergus Collins, editor@countryfile.com
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