Britain by foot

My husband, Robert, and I have enjoyed a lifelong love of walking the countryside of England, where if a path between villages was ever a public path, it must be kept so even if the land it is on is sold.

From 1983 to 2009, we went on 20 tours with Lord Winston’s Walking Tours (now called Footpath Touring but offering tours only to previous clientele).

Lord Winston (aka Ken Ward) has written many excellent guidebooks that enable people to plan walking holidays on their own. Most recently, he has authored “Six Feet to Land’s End” (2010, Footpath Touring. ISBN 0956402801— 420 pages, $18), a humorous novel that follows the adventures of two World War II veterans who, more than 50 years after the war, walk 300 miles from Cheltenham to Land’s End, a place they had only seen from their troopship.

Full of wonderful descriptions of the beauty, history and true flavor of England, the book is a delight.

SHARON L. WILSON

Peoria, IL