| Re: Walking - an exercise.
One of the reasons that people don't walk so much is probably the amount of traffic on the roads. I can remember, when a boy, walking for miles on country lanes, with only the occasional car passing, and not fast at that. It isn't like that nowadays.
There are footpaths of course, but they are not always well known and don't often start at your door.
But I walk whenever I can. A couple of years ago I went to a meeting in London, on the day the Underground was on strike. Arriving at Kings Cross, my colleagues said "Let's get a bus." I shook my head and said I'd walk. About an hour later I arrived at the door of the meeting room at the same time as the others - I thought they'd been for a coffee, but the roads had been so jammed that they'd been on the bus all the time!
I do think people have got lazy though. People will get in the car for the shortest of distances.
henrya |