Ynysybwl Vision • October 14, 2020
The wonders of walking
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A view on walking from a member of Ynysybwl Cressci walking group
I've walk most of wales, it's mountains it shores and it's valley's. So these are my thoughts on why I walk. For many years I took this activity for granted now I look at it in a different light. To be able to walk out your front door and into an outdoor space is for me uplifting. So what's the reason for this feeling, I would say it's a personal one, I've looked at nature with eyes of both a young child and now as a middle aged man. All these years it's the four sessions I've walked, that I enjoy the most with summer that gives me the most pleasure. It takes ne right back to my childhood. I now feel its time to share my love of walking with you the reader, so it's a start of a journey really, a journey of a welsh man and his passion for walking.
They say you can take the welsh man out of the mountain but you can't take the mountain out of the welsh man.
So I am starting there in the mountains, it where I was born, educated work and lived all my life. People, friends and family have all moved away for work or new lives but I've stayed put. I know now why that is. It's the welsh mountain they have a hold on me, the sort of hold a lover would have on your heart.
When I was a young child my family would take walks in the summer, I am sure it was to save money on public transport, but as a child I didn't know that then. We would walk miles to visit family and friends stopping only for a short visit then return either by bus our walking back. I remember those walks to this day and can retrace them even now.
Coal mining for many welsh communities was the norm, I am very lucky now that all the coal mines have been cleared away and I get to see what these areas were like before that time.
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