Best Literary Walks

thorold: Suffolk maybe isn't the obvious place for a walking tour, but with Sebald as companion it's definitely worth seeing.

thorold: Middle-aged grocer goes walkabout in the Scottish Borders and rescues a princess

thorold: The Pennines by poet

thorold: Modernist novelist on the loose in the Spanish countryside

thorold: Even though he did all he could to avoid being "literary", Wainwright's work has had such an influence on the way we think about walking in the rainy bits of Britain that it has to be included here. The C-to-C walk includes some of his most famously grumpy passages.

bluepiano: Reda is a poet whose prose & perspective are distinctive; these are his accounts of what he sees and reflects upon whilst wandering the streets & byways of Paris.

thorold: Not every travel writer gets blurbs from Ben Jonson and John Donne!