The project, Beach of Dreams, has been organised by art and design company Kinetika. It involves a 500-mile walk from Lowestoft, along the Essex coast to Tilbury, where residents can book one mile to walk themselves and submit a picture taken on the walk to show off the beauty of the area. The firm’s artistic director, Ali Pretty, will be walking the entire journey herself. She has encouraged residents to sign up for a mile to leave their own stamp on the project. She said: “The UK has been very fragmented, so I took the metaphor of a fragmented coast line as a basis for the project.
The project, Beach of Dreams, has been organised by art and design company Kinetika. It involves a 500-mile walk from Lowestoft, along the Essex coast to Tilbury, where residents can book one mile to walk themselves and submit a picture taken on the walk to show off the beauty of the area. The firm’s artistic director, Ali Pretty, will be walking the entire journey herself. She has encouraged residents to sign up for a mile to leave their own stamp on the project. She said: “The UK has been very fragmented, so I took the metaphor of a fragmented coast line as a basis for the project.
The project, Beach of Dreams, has been organised by art and design company Kinetika. It involves a 500-mile walk from Lowestoft, along the Essex coast to Tilbury, where residents can book one mile to walk themselves and submit a picture taken on the walk to show off the beauty of the area. The firm’s artistic director, Ali Pretty, will be walking the entire journey herself. She has encouraged residents to sign up for a mile to leave their own stamp on the project. She said: “The UK has been very fragmented, so I took the metaphor of a fragmented coast line as a basis for the project.
The project, Beach of Dreams, has been organised by art and design company Kinetika. It involves a 500-mile walk from Lowestoft to Tilbury where residents can book one mile to walk themselves and submit a picture taken on the walk to show off the beauty. However, the firm’s artistic director, Ali Pretty, will be walking the gruelling entirety of the journey herself. She will pass through Harwich on July 10 and has encouraged residents to sign up for a mile to leave their own stamp on the project. She said: “The UK has been very fragmented, so I took the metaphor of a fragmented coast line as a basis for the project.
A rock climber at Stanage Edge, Derbyshire. Photograph: Michael Buddle/Rex
A rock climber at Stanage Edge, Derbyshire. Photograph: Michael Buddle/Rex
With journeys to distant corners of the globe still on hold, our writers are gearing up to hike, climb, camp, and swim on home turf
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âAs a venue for hiking and fell running, Stanage Edge is unbeatableâ â Kevin Rushby
When we were kids it was always UK holidays, usually under canvas, and always recalled with affection. I have no problem giving up foreign travel for a while, although I do miss the sheer scale and biodiversity of distant wildernesses and worry about the communities who invested hope, and effort, in tourism as a way of holding off the oilmen, gold prospectors and road diggers. Iâm praying they hang on. We will return!