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678 Hiking in England; British Footnotes; High Tea in London

Travel with Rick Steves

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The Wilds of Sky

I was looking for genuine wildness, and you can find it in the sky, as well as some very good whiskey in the north, around snowdon national park. I followed um johnson and boswell, if you know them around scotland, johnson wrote the first dictionary in the eighteenth century. Coleridge, too, who is, uh, an obsessive walker. He would walk for for hours and days at a time, tossing out his poems as he went. But again, i had no room for them. They appear in the book in little sort of bits and pieces, but no, they didn't get whole chapters to themselves.

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