Into Dedham Vale and the Stour Valley — I’m walking the Essex Way in five stages — one day a week — during August 2023. You can read about my first stage from Epping to Pepper’s Green, my second stage from Pepper’s Green to White Notley and my third stage from White Notley to West Bergholt. After a…

Passing halfway and getting close to home — I’m walking the Essex Way in five stages — one day a week — during August 2023. You can read about my first stage from Eping to Pepper’s Green and my second stage from Pepper’s Green to White Notley. This is how horror movies start, I think when I arrive…

A longer than expected second stage of my journey — I’m walking the Essex Way in five stages — one day a week — during August 2023. You can read about my first day’s walking from Epping to Pepper’s Green here. Getting up early to walk is a lot easier when there are other people around you doing the same…

The first stage of my journey across the county — I’m walking the Essex Way in five stages — one day a week-during August 2023. I’ve started country walks from all sorts of places — pubs, bus stops, car parks, lay-bys, remote cottages — but this is the first time I’ve begun one from a London Underground station. The Essex…

At Calanais, I reflect on time, art and memory — It’s July 1993. I’m at a disused airfield south of Birmingham watching a man in a furry alien suit run around a stage. Then he strips out of that, leaving him in just a bright yellow posing pouch as he starts climbing the lighting gantries. It’s July 2023. I’m standing…

My next long walk, in scattered parts — Whenever I go walking somewhere, my first port of call are the Ordnance Survey maps for the area. …

A new home for my stories about walking — I walk a lot, and I write about walking a lot. For those of you who know me or have followed me here or elsewhere for a while, that statement won’t be a surprise. …

Natasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson’s new series entertainingly reinvents some classic tropes — American TV has a long history of series based on a traveller who, often inadvertently, finds themselves bringing justice to a place and then moving on down the road to somewhere else, searching for a resolution to their own quest. …

Trek26 was a journey through memory — It started with a coincidence. My sister-in-law’s mother had died from Lewy Body dementia and here was an advert inviting me to go do a charity walk for Alzheimer’s Society. It’s only now, thinking back, that I realise how going for a big walk is my way of dealing with…