‘We love watching the landscape respond to each season’: why hiking long-distance trails in bite-size chunks is more fun | Walking holidays

It is 7.30am. The sky is a pink-and-gold blur, and the breeze is invigorating. It’s a perfect day to walk from my London home to the source of the River Thames. I’m travelling light – phone, sandwich, water bottle – so I need nothing but a pair of capacious pockets. I have been walking the 185-mile Thames…

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Can you actually die of a broken heart?

Passing quietly away from sheer heartbreak is a trope that pops up in myth and fantasy. In the Star Wars universe, Padmé Amidala may have died of a broken heart after her husband turned to the dark side, becoming Darth Vader, and she gave birth to Luke and Leia. Shakespeare’s King Lear succumbs to heartbreak…

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