Walking The slow way to Switzerland An unhurried journey by train and on foot stretched time and filled our summer with stories.
Thinking The impossibility of seasons This wet summer has me remembering dry days gone by, the sort of days when the sun evaporates the very idea of winter.
Walking Hot chocolate on the hill Following in Celtic footsteps, we welcome spring with our own family ritual.
Thinking Who are green lanes for? Off-roaders have a legal right to drive on Byways Open to All Traffic. So ill-feeling towards them is a symptom of a wider problem.
Thinking The landscape of private names Pig Path. Blue Gate. Muddy Path. The prosaic names I gave to my childhood landscape embodied a world that no map could ever properly capture.
Thinking It’s time to set kids free from cars We’ve created a society where kids don't travel actively or independently, and it’s affecting their wellbeing.
Thinking The right to wild camp on Dartmoor: gone but not forgotten The outcome last week of a wealthy landowner’s high court case was sadly predictable: he’s stripped people of their legal right to camp on Dartmoor.
Cycling Edgelands: neither here nor there I’m no lover of cities, yet I'm drawn to edgelands – those transitional spaces that are neither urban nor rural.
Walking Walking has become a radical act Choose to walk and you're resisting pressure to conform and embracing a mode of transport that is free – in more ways than one.
Thinking Land access rights in England are wrong Around 92% of land in England is off-limits to the general public and where rights of way do exist, cyclists can only ride around 20% of them.
Thinking The lost art of getting lost Why should you always have to know where you are, and where you’re going?
Thinking Goodbye to all that: when a child outgrows their bike We’ve just sold G’s bike. It’s not the first one he’s outgrown, and it won’t be the last. Yet it marks a moment in the journey through his childhood.
Thinking The joy of towpath gravel With no proper infrastructure or access rights in England, I have to get creative when planning traffic-free rides.
