The 745-mile (1,200km) route follows the watershed, the line dividing river systems that flow west to the Atlantic from those that end up in the North Sea. “Imagine you are a raindrop”, Peter Wright, the new route’s author, told me. Frankly, that wasn’t difficult. On the day I met him in the Campsie Fells the cloud was low. The fog was high. And the drizzle was pretty constant. Read More