Indonesia is the second country this year which I had not visited before. We flew in to Yogyakarta, from Kuala Lumpur. YIA, the new airport of ‘Jogja’, was opened in early 2020, was then open for three months, to close again because of COVID. In 2022 it was opened permanently. A whole 50k from town, …

Penny Walker  for her story Seeing the Moon and Elizabeth Fevyer  for her poem Nightstepper are the winners of our annual Write About Walking competition, collecting the prize of becoming our writers-in-residence for 2025/26.  Poetry judge and out-going poet-in-residence, Damaris West commented on the poetry entries: “Judging the ‘In the dark’ competition was not an

Long walks can be magical, if you have the time and ability to go on one, and this article describes 13 possibilities. Some I knew about; some I’ve completed; some are completely new to me. One thought: I can’t imagine paying for a guided tour of the Camino de Santiago. That’s not necessary, in my … Continue reading The 13 Most Magical Long Walks in the World →

I’ve been interviewed for the website On Creative Writing. I discuss my influences and what inspired my book, Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road. Curious about what connects George Orwell to “dirty nature writing”? Read the i...

The call for papers for Sacred Journeys 13th Global Conference is out. Abstracts for papers on any aspect of pilgrimage are due 15 February 2026, although you don’t have to present a paper to participate. You might just be interested in pilgrimage–perhaps as a practitioner, someone who has travelled to places that are sacred to … Continue reading Sacred Journeys 13th Global Conference, Université Laval University, Quebec City, Canada, July 7-10, 2026 →

Rawz created Forgotten Stories Of Oxford, a Spoken Word collection which forms a walking tour of central Oxford, offering a glimpse behind the facade of a city whose name is synonymous with global elitism. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Rawz discusses the piece, and what lead to its

For our second walk together-apart, Kristina Rothstein and I walked in Tokyo, Japan and Edinburgh, Scotland respectively. 2nd October 2025. The agreed location was the city, and coordinated stops were scheduled for the beginning, middle and end. Kristina’s walk The walk started at 7pm Tokyo time, on the last night of my three and half … Continue reading Walking in Pairs 2 -Tokyo / Edinburgh

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John Bechtold and his co-creator Alli Ross created Where I End & You Begin, immersive theater that sends two participants on a tandem journey across MASS MoCA’s galleries and campus in North Adams, Massachusetts. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, John discusses the work. Developed in a multi-year artist

CHICAGO — Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look at “The Art of Ferris Bueller,” you could miss it. On Nov. 22, Kelli Marshall will take guests Source: Visit the same artwork as Ferris Bueller on his day off at ‘The Art of Ferris Bueller’ walking tour | Entertainment News | recorderonline.com

Manar Abu Dhabi opened to the public on Friday with 22 artworks using lasers, mirrors, steel, glass and fibre optics Source: Manar Abu Dhabi lights up the desert: Free entry, family fun with night walks through laser arches | Khaleej Times

In Slovakia’s Kysihýbel Arboretum, rare trees frame contemporary sculptures in a quiet walk where art and nature meet. Source: Kysihýbel Arboretum: A forest art walk in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia – The Slovak Spectator

Free after-dark walking and running club launches in Oxford to help women feel safe and stay active in winter. Source: After-dark walking and running club for women in Oxford | Oxford Mail

Next week, Saturday November 29, I’m hosting a Dérive app workshop in Yogyakarta, together with Kunci and Jalan Gembira. You can still sign up, check the announcement for the signup link. In preparation, we kicked off with an online presentation, to ease participants into concepts surrounding the dérive, specifically its origin with the Situationists, and …

Burn all the maps to you for a better life Source: Map, Demap and Reroute | Humans

Dan Carins A few weeks after moving from Birmingham to Knighton in Powys, my son and I walked from the town to neighbouring Presteigne and back along the Offa’s Dyke Path. In the mist and drizzle of the morning, the ancient earthwork guided our steps as we crossed fields and old drovers’ lanes as it […]

The Railway Curiosity Shop of Wonder in John Street, Stroud Alec is always busy in his shop, Mending clocks and repairing engines, Walking past trucks and carriages and bottles and level crossings – But when sunlight flashed through the rainswept...

Pride comes before a Fall You know the shop in John Street with all the bottles and jars and bikes and signs outside, and all the vintage toy railway engines inside: all those toy trucks and carriages and level crossings and signals and oh so much more...

Jeremy Knowles was part of the team that created And let no one be forgotten!, a sound walk centred on three houses in Berlin, which stand as silent witnesses to the shifting tides of history. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Jeremy discusses the piece. When I first came

We are delighted to announce the short listed entries in our annual Write About Walking writing competition that this year, had a theme of “Walking In The Dark” in support of the global action “Women walking, the City, at Night“. Fourteen poems and stories from eleven writers were chosen by the judges, and will be