I enjoy The Guardian's Country Diary, which happily sits amongst comment and letters about nuclear power, the state of the economy and 'stern Kenyan abuses'.
Today's column brought back happy memories. It describes a winter's cycle ride to Tetbury in Gloucestershire, near the ancient Fosse Way.
I made a similar bike ride 11 years ago, when I was living in Ashton Keynes in Wiltshire. I had just got a new, lighter bike and was keen to try it out. The weather was February-raw, but it was fascinating to spot the abandoned sections of the Roman road in the weak sunlight.
Two years later, I saw Fosse Way from the air, thanks to a friend who owned a microlight based at Kemble airfield. Not far away, the Ridgeway offers another ancient route through the countryside in rather wilder countryside - at least by the standards of Southern England.
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