![]() ![]() Now, it’s impressive, but what’s to savour in that? You might just as well do it on a set of rollers. ![]() Now, it’s not where shall I go, more, how shall I do it – with a fridge on my back or shall I just see how fast I can complete? By bike, the current record is 78 days 14 hours and 40 minutes (there is a rumour that it was actually 39 minutes) to get around the world. ![]() It took about 15 minutes.Īnd that’s the nature of travel – what was once an expedition is now a relatively safe afternoon stroll – as evidenced by the ridiculous queues to get up Everest (though plenty still die up there) and what I imagine are (or were?) streams of gap year backpackers falling over each other to get into a once remote location. Many years later I persuaded my daughter to take the same walk – which is lovely. Given it was the first time I had ever done it on my own it seemed like a lengthy expedition. This involved walking from Thornhill down to Low Mill along the river Ehen by the beck fields and past the shoe factory into Egremont. When I was about ten I went to see ‘Born Free’ with a friend. ![]() An influential if at times flawed travelogue from the late 1970s. ![]()
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