What do you like best about the walk?
I LOVE my walk to work. I live high up in Paparangi and as I walk downwards I can see the tip of Kapiti Island and Porirua Harbour in the distance (in the summer, that is in the winter, its just sparkling lights everywhere). I also love the huge hills on one side of my view different day, different lighting MAGICAL and always different - and, in the winter, some of the valleys are immersed in rolling white mist. In spring, further on in my walk towards Johnsonville station, there is jasmine blooming the smell follows me for several hundred meters in either direction. Lovely! In late summer, there is crimson bougainvillea sparkling in the sun on the way home. Each day I gauge my timing by a Newlands bus, which, if I am on time, arrives at the Helston Road overbridge at the same time as I do. The driver and I know each other by sight now and grin like idiots at each other every morning. As I say, I LOVE my walk to work.
What do you like best about the walk?
Walking through the Basin Reserve- every day is different ! Depending on the time of year- some days there is dew on the grass, some days the sun is shining, someone may be mowing the lawn, or rolling the pitch, sometimes I am alone, sometimes not. Some days cyclists overtake me, or other walkers or someone on a skateboard or roller blades. I never know what to expect through this quiet part of my walk and I always to look forward it.
Why do you walk?
Pleasure, fitness, calming effect of walking, less stressful than bussing or taking the car. It's amazing the things you see each day and its nice to have the time to find pleasure in the small things, walking to walk allows you to slow your mind down and observe what is going on around you.