Literary Hitchhiking - "Dulce et Decorum est"
/The Poetry is in the Pity
Walking is a great way to contemplate and remember and in November each year it is ‘sweet and fitting’ to take a Literary Hitchhike with a Remembrance theme. For this Remembrance walk in the south Oxfordshire Chilterns, we have chosen as our principal literary subject one of our most celebrated Great War Poets, Wilfred Owen. Owen witnessed firsthand the harsh reality and carnage of war - his ‘poetry of witness’ is uncompromising work, steeped in pity and fury, the pen exploding with purpose as it is pushed across the paper.
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Thames Path 30th Anniversary Relay
2026 marks the 30th Anniversary of the Thames Path National Trail. To celebrate, the Thames Path National Trail Team, in partnership with Drinkable Rivers, is coordinating a Thames Path Relay along the entire length of the Trail – from source to sea. We are delighted that Pipsticks Walks will to be leading three of the Thames Path Relay walks!
These walks are FREE to attend but you MUST BOOK a place.