The Great Outdoors

Travelling Light

HE BEST THING about walking is the feeling of freedom. This is odd in a way, because walking is a pretty limited way of getting around – hence why we invented wheels and wings. But the real ingredients of freedom are nothing to do with speed or convenience; at the heart of it,

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