Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
I never really used to walk in the countryside until about 5 years ago when I joined a walking group on Meetup. Got addicted to it, joined a swathe of other Meetup walking groups (spread throughout Somerset, Devon and Dorset) and started leading walks for many of them. The women hugely outnumber the men (most of the latter being social misfits) and, apart from the group walks (and I'm not usually a group person), I am informally contracted to walk with several ladies (individually) every week. It's a hard life but someone's got to do it.