Cycling around - as I do to work everyday - serves to remind me of how wonderful streets actually are.
Forget Googlemaps digital hi-techery or even good old OS hiking travails, cycling lets you experience streets and, even, read and reflect on their names as your pass from one to the other. Lives, homes, public and private spaces.
Nothing profound maybe, but it helps get me through the day. Lots of good songs about streets too (and, at least, one fine band).
Here's one now: 'Montague Terrace (In Blue)' (1967)
Aye, give me terraces, kerbs, chimneys, alleyways, little walls and hedges, municipal parks and a corner pub - the very stuff of life.
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