Day 3.
Little Sodbury to Elberton.
We discovered that Yate has been built over our route and so we spent too long walking on roads. We also had to cross a golf course – strangely over domestic and manicured yet slightly dangerous. We also had to cross too many fields that were unmarked or in which no attempt had been made to provide a footpath.Thankyou to the farmers and landowners who do mark these routes.
But it was the road walking that made me realise the importance of (well signed) footpaths and the like. I felt as if we were dicing with death on some of these roads and where else can we walk sometimes? Of course I know that roads are dangerous but walking them really made me know, I know that walking over twenty miles a day is hard, but doing it really made me know. This way of knowing and doing relates to my practice led PhD. It also relates to Pragmatism which is a philosophy based on learning by comparing theory with practice.
A footnote to this day and the following one were the glimpses we would get of the Severn Bridge, today in anticipation, tomorrow as a reminder of where we had been. Walking the Land work a lot with the River Severn and this crossing was important to us all.
