Hitchhiking is cheap, fun and a good way to meet new people. But what is it like when you’re travelling in your eighties? Terence Bendixson OBE President Emeritus, Living Streets shares his experiences. Source: Tales of an octogenarian hitchhiker | The Spectator
The queen who dressed as a man and the eunuch who built a mosque are just two highlights of a journey through 800 years of India’s rich LGBTQ+ heritage Source: Rediscovering India’s lost queer icons: a tour of Old Delhi’s secret history | Global development | The Guardian
On the 30 June, Stella Assange and her two children were granted a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Assange, in absentia, walks the Camino in his cell, writing thedistances on his wall between locations on the pilgrimage. Source: Exclusive interview: Stella Assange on her husband, faith and meeting Pope Francis – Catholic
I don’t walk as much (or as quickly) as I have for most of my life. Still, Wendy and I take a walk every day, weather and other circumstances permitting. I treasure these times. But I also like to read about walking. Source: The Pleasure of Walking | John Wilson | First Things
Fragile mountain environments are too often damaged in the race for the summit. Slow tourism offers a better way.
Source: ‘It is treated as a commodity to be conquered’: Can mountain tourism ever be truly sustainable?
lonning, lonnin
Cumbrian dialect term for ‘lane’ – but a quite specific lane. Lonnings are usually about half a mile long, low level and often with a farm at the end. Many have specific names known only to the local villagers. Hence, Bluebottle Lonning, Lovers Lonning, Fat Lonning, Thin Lonning, Squeezy Gut Lonning or Dynamite Lonning. In the north-east the spelling is lonnin and seems to refer more to an alley than a country lane. The Scottish equivalent is ‘loan’.
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