Tournehem sur la Hem – Wisques

May 31, 2022

Tournehem sur la Hem to Visques – 20km

We think of ideal hiking adventures as walking in pristine nature. We yearn
for a sense of exploration, discovery, and perhaps even mystical union with
mother earth. Remote canyons, virgin forests, ground never touched by human
footprint. This is not that. Every inch of land is curated by human hand, not
an inch is left unattended. Even the old Roman path we walk on, built by Caesar’s
legions as they marched to conquer Britain, is carefully maintained to serve thru
walkers, as we are called.  But in these vast fields of wheat and corn, grape seed and sorghum each stalk and stem are barely a month old, seen by only a handful of walkers and an occasional rabbit.  Individually unique, in the aggregate shape a
pristine landscape.

But then there is this and our walk continues.