Fair question. I don't travel a lot. I live 1.5 miles from the centre of a city of a million in the UK. We have been staying for a week at a time at various sea

Fair question. I don't travel a lot. I live 1.5 miles from the centre of a city of a million in the UK. We have been staying for a week at a time at various seasons just outside a small town (2,500 population) in a national park a few hundred miles away for the last two and a half decades. Green fields outside the door and a river with (last week) a couple of herons hunting. So I travel for contrast and to the same locus for continuity and to observe changes. The sudden appearance of disinfectant mats at the start of the foot and mouth epidemic, the slow turnover of farm transport from green Land Rovers to quad-bikes, a new generation taking over some of the older houses (micro-breweries and food pubs). The rise of serious bicycle riding as a local sport.