We are delighted to have author Gail Simmons join us in July, to talk about walking through history, landscape and solitariness. Gail’s “Between the Chalk and the Sea” as been receiving rave reviews since its publication Ian February this year (Headline 2023).
Described as England’s Camino, the Old Way is a long-distance footpath that carves through one of the nation’s most iconic landscapes – one that links prehistoric earthworks, abandoned monasteries, Saxon churches, ruined castles and historic seaports. Over four seasons, travel writer Gail Simmons walks the Old Way to rediscover what a long journey on foot offers us today.
• In summer 2025, for one entire week, walking became the defining activity in Prespa, a mountainous transboundary landscape where two ancient freshwater lakes traverse Greece, Albania, and North Macedonia. Through acts of healing, experiencing, resisting and becoming, WAC 25 explored walking as a multifaceted practice as part of the wider, four-year Creative Europe project “Walking
Stories of Place, Community and Environment (SPACE) Walk, facilitated by Kim V. Goldsmith, is an act of walking together with different knowledge holders and community change-makers to creatively explore the local landscape and consider future possibilities for farming, the environment, the community, and the wider region.
South of the River Thames the buildings are dense, and green spaces are in short supply. All the same, great rhomboids of park land dot the landscape on what was common land. At the time of the mid 1800’s expansion of London, local people campaigned and paid for the land to be set aside, and
soak
To walk slowly and heavily along, as in “I must soak home and get a bite to eat.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).
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