14-05-2025
A Walking Tour Worthy of a Jane Austen Novel
'I prefer walking,' declares Anne Elliot, the heroine of Jane Austen's 'Persuasion.' To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth, my husband and I decided to channel her characters' love of country strolls, walking from Oxford to Bath, the resort town where Austen lived from 1801 to 1806. A visit to her house in Chawton we'd save for another trip.
To make the same pilgrimage to Bath by train takes just over an hour. By foot, it is eight arduous days. Macs Adventure, a tour planner headquartered in Glasgow, mapped out our 'easy-to-moderate' route, arranged our accommodations and transferred our luggage each day. We felt we could easily average about 13.8 miles a day, even while chatting.
