There's barely a field around my house that isn't crossed by a footpath.
There are a loads of fantastic long walks to take on. Personally I'd recommend the south west coastal path. In particular the wilder Exmoor section, although there's barely a dull moment over the whole 1000km. There is definitely something incredibly mindful and calming about just spending time walking.
"And of course the many high-school students doing Duke of Edinburgh’s Award hikes, often with looks of total dejection and sadness, and certainly with much stink, but always with an impressive commitment."
Been there, done that, got the blisters. Totally worth it looking back, got me into walkin, but not sure I understood it at the time.
Two lightly toasted slices of NOT white bread, lightly apply very good mayo 1/8 lb of good smoked ham sliced very thin 1 large dill pickle sliced fairly thin
...aaannnnddd a bunch of ruffles potato chips.
Assemble a thin layer of ham, then pile the pickle slices in a second layer, add another ham layer, then pile the chips as the next layer, and add a final thin ham layer to insulate the chips from the top bread slice mayo layer
Eat quickly. Probably need two hands. Likely need to stop walking. There will be crunching noises. I'm not ashamed to admit I've been addicted for 50 years.
The bread protects the mouth. One of the biggest risks to scoffing down a bag of chips is that it scratches and scrapes your mouth.
So butter to complement the dryness and crunch and bread to soften the blow. It makes perfect sense.
1. Toast one side only of two slices of fresh white bread.
2. Construct a sandwich with the untoasted sides facing out.
3. Inside the sandwich place mushed banana and a sprinkle of sugar.
As you bite through you get soft, crunch, soft, crunch, soft. It’s a thing of beauty.
Another weird combo is crispy bacon and marmalade. In regular toasted bread.
Ah, sandwiches. One of the great foods. Source: I’m from the North East.
Urk: I’ve gone from “Chip buttie” to “chip butty”, I’m not a fan, I’ve had to correct my spelling twice, but I’m not trying to sneak my spelling corrections past anyone.
it also helps that they are salted, and salt is a pretty good flavor enhancer.
* their recipe is probably: "1. Dump bag of sugar in bottle of vinegar. Veg? Haha, we don't use expensive vegetables here, every little counts you know!"
But it's unusual, mostly people seem to just refer to it as "the lakes".
That just sounds like gibberish.
I think author slept at some cottage every night. Taking sandwiches on through hike without resuply does not seem very practical..
I did wild camping in Scotland long time ago, but I would not recommend it today. Locals are not so welcoming now.
Plus it's a pretty unusual through hike. It goes through three national parks, but it's nowhere wilderness and you're never more than about 10 route miles from a village. Resupply en route is fairly trivial.
