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Coventry and Sunderland launches
We hope you may have noticed our launches in both Coventry and Sunderland.
Please pass on details to anyone you know who lives or works there (or visits).
Try out a few walks:
Sunderland
Southwick to Royal Sunderland Hospital
St Peter's Metro to Roker Park [...]
Left, right, left, right – what is the politics of urban walking?
Are the users of walkit.com predominantly a bunch of Guardian-reading liberal lefties? Or perhaps they're Mail-reading neocons?
We could hazard a guess, but maybe unwise to jump to conclusions. The beauty of urban walking is that nearly all of us do [...]
London tube too hot to handle?
Transport for London has released this 'heat' map of Underground lines in zones one and two between 1600 and 1900 on 28/29 July 2008 – the hottest day of the year.
So on parts of the Central, Bakerloo and Victoria lines [...]
‘Touching the stairs’
Thought this was rather inspired.
From the people at Green Thing.
On those rare occasions when you can't face walking outside, give it a go inside.
Makes our attempt at a promotional video (from quite a while back, in our defence) look rather…a-hem… [...]
Why are we running a car ad?!
You may have noticed we're running some ads for the Toyota Prius.
Hardly a Hummer, but questionable for walkit.com to be running a car ad at all (even for a Toyota 'Pious'…)?
Quite a while ago we sparked a bit of a [...]
walkit.com recommended by Rough Guides
We have been specially recommended in the new Rough Guides book Clean Breaks: 500 New Ways to See the World.
The book highlights “500 places across the globe which will inspire people to see the world in a new light, selecting [...]
