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What a day! It has rained continuously from sometime in the night and I find myself in the heart of “Last of the Summer Wine” country! Fortunately I have sought refuge in the lovely White Heart (yes, really!) and am treating myself with asparagus risotto and chocolate brownies. This is

I arise late; luxuriating in a rare opportunity to have a Sunday lie in. I remain in my room till lunchtime trying to catch up my blog; it is really difficult for me to keep this up to date now and the e mails and further route planning next to

Anne walks with me through the centre of Chesterfield and the bustling market place; I feel nostalgia rising, though I would not go back to the eighties when this market town and its surrounding settlements were reeling from the beginning of the end of the coal industry, still this town

Sent in by Kenrick Chin from Dundas in Transition in Canada, this article weaves a story around visits to Wales, Oxford and London by a US-based food writer and activist, Mark Winne. Winne finds many inspiration projects in his whistlestop tour, showing how determined innovation can really make a difference

Day 65 A Little Piece of Paradise I head out of Quarndon to the A6 which I follow into Duffield; I have known the A6 (which stretches from Luton in the south to Carlisle in the north) as a fast and dangerous road since my childhood in Lancashire, where it