Josh Allen untangles Walk Midlands: his COVID-born, politically-led, history-fuelled, trans-regional walking project, that is a no-cars-required walking guide to the entire English Midlands.
Category: Inspiration
Inspirational activities from within and without the world of walking. Stuff to get you thinking about your next walk.
The Darkest Road
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While researching his second book, based on Birmingham's partially lost Roman Road, Jay Mason-Burns finds the ghosts of Icknield Street are sending him on a more personal pilgrimage.
Award-winning writer, theatre director and bookseller Clive Judd shares an extract from his current work-in-progress.
Sat in a coffee shop in May, Julia O’Connell, artist and co-artistic director of independent, Coventry-based cross-discipline performance company Theatre Absolute, propositioned me with a brand new commission for their new work Project:Public. I don’t know about other artists, but when I’m offered a new commission my entire being floods almost instantly with nerves and […]
It's lining up to be a good summer for walking in Birmingham with the return of Still Walking Festival and the accompanying guidebook "111 Places in Birmingham That You Shouldn't Miss" by Ben Waddington. Still Walking has been a big influence on many of us at Walkspace with its unusual and highly creative approach to […]
Dead Man's Fingers walk
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We're going on a mushroom hunt…
The 90km commute
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As an Australophile, I enjoyed watching Beau Miles video, 'The Commute: Walking 90km to work', in which he ditched his car and walked to Monash University in Melbourne to deliver a lecture about adventuring. Fresh from the adventure, so to speak. Or not so fresh given the nature of the commute. It was recommended to […]
On Christmas Eve I met up with local podcaster and author of At Walking Pace, Nyla Naseer for a walk around Highbury Park. Nyla captured some of the walk and conversation on video for her walking-themed YouTube channel. Part interview, part impromptu tour of some of the park's curios (including an "Angry Wall" and a […]
Nyla Naseer is an author and walker based in King's Heath, Birmingham. During lockdown she wrote a book to celebrate walking. 'At Walking Pace' was published last month, is easy to read, well researched and has one of the most pleasing book covers of all the walking books! Nyla's book is all about how walking […]
Walk with Craig across Japan
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Are you up for a vicarious walk across Japan starting tonight? Craig Mod – writer of Roden and Ridgeline newsletters – is inviting people to join him on his durational walk 500km from Tokyo to Kyoto. It starts when he turns 40 at midnight tonight and he will walk daily until the end of November. […]