The bestselling author has always hated being on his own, so why does he spend a few days every year hiking alone in the wind and rain? Just don’t call it a midlife crisis … Source: ‘Thirsty, wet, desolate. The dream’: One Day author David Nicholls on the peculiar pleasure of long, soggy solo walks
Even an ‘easy’ part of this 125-mile walking trail on the French island presents challenges for mind and body, but the rewards for persistence are infinite Source: My hike on the hardest trail in Europe – Corsica’s GR20 | Corsica holidays | The Guardian
Wildlife, fossils and industrial heritage add extra interest to this wild cliff walk to an inn for all seasons Source: A Pembrokeshire coast walk to a warm, welcoming pub | Pembrokeshire holidays | The Guardian
Russ Cook from Worthing reaches Ras Angela, Tunisia, after covering more than 9,900 miles in 352 days Source: ‘I’m a little bit tired’: Briton becomes first person to run the length of Africa | Africa | The Guardian
We’re running here, we’re running there, it’s time to stop running at the Rochester, Minnesota Art Center so you can see the new exhibit, Walk With Us.
Source: Stop Running In the Rochester Art Center for New Exhibit
pedestrian acts
By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.
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