A 10-year-old Syrian girl stepped off a boat in Boston Harbor on September 7th—a beacon of hope encountering a new land. Her name is Amal, and she was without parents, a stranger in a strange place, displaced from her home and everything she knew. But Little Amal was not alone; observing closely, she was surrounded

London National Park City are hosting a week of walking events across the capital. Source: Upcoming Events | London Community

A new website aims to offer a wide network of walking routes from British train stations, and is calling on hikers to add their favourites. Our writer accompanies the founder on a ramble to Bath Spa station Source: ‘You can walk virtually everywhere in England by using the train’: the man connecting rail-based walks |

Beginning and ending in Dundonald Park, Morgan Mercury’s tours explore prominent activist figures, the development of Ottawa’s queer nightlife and the decades-long purge of federal civil servants suspected of being 2SLGBTQ+. Source: Drag artist queers Centretown’s history in walking tours | CBC News

Long Nights / Kholod Hawash (IQ), Photo: Markus Schneeberger “State of the ART(ist)” focuses on artists who face threats to their existence. These threats may come in the form of repression or political persecution by unjust regimes or democratically legitimized governments. They may also face danger due to open hostilities, loss of livelihood from environmental

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

Walking a 26-mile stretch from Hertfordshire, our writer witnesses how a neglected artery of the city has been transformed into a recreational and cultural hub Source: Walking London’s unsung waterway: the River Lea rises again | London holidays | The Guardian