Walking to Peterborough

  Hurray! I’m finally out on slow pilgrimage again, eighteen months after finishing the Big Walk detailed in this blog. Beginning at Peterbo...

Was this a pilgrimage? If so, it was a strangely protracted, episodic one. At 2206 kilometres in length, the amount of walking involved was ...

  Man, those knees... There are plenty of spaces in Peterborough’s short-stay car park, and even the payment machines are working today. It’...

  On my way into Peterborough, Lou Reed’s re-mastered ‘Transformer’ is on the car stereo. Reed had just left the uber-cool ‘Velvet Undergrou...

You know how it is. A scent on the air from a hedgerow bush, a particular kind of weather day, the DJ plays an old song, and, well, it isn’t...

There’s a long hold at the level crossing just beyond Helpston. An inter-city passes, then another, and finally a local train chugs by on it...