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The Ambient Rambler's Book of Journey - Introduction


Here's my own attempt at a web log of my travels to ancient places over recent years. Much of what is written here is done so months or years after the event, so details and chronological order will probably be a little hazy.... but if my guess is right, you'll probably care as little about that as I do! Even if accuracy suffers, it's the ambience of the journey that matters.

Ambient Rambling isn't about necessarily reaching the top of a mountain, or even reaching your intended destination. It's about the journey. About being in the landscape and experiencing it as you go by. I've climbed hills with people who are so obsessed about reaching the summit, that all they see is the path beneath their feet. Ambient Rambling is the very opposite of this. You may only get halfway up the hill, but that isn't important. It's being on the hill in the first place that is the important part.

Excursions to ancient places are the perfect settings for an Ambient Ramble, most of them being found in beautiful places. Take time to experience the place. Don't go there to tick it off your list, or to find an answer - just go there to be.

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Name: Andy Hemingway

D.O.B: 17.04.66

Occupation: Graphic Artist

Website: http://www.ahgphotography.co.uk

I was born and raised in Huddersfield. I moved to Norwich in 1988 to go to Art School and haven't got it together to leave yet!! My interests are visiting and reading about ancient places, tribal art and society and trying my damnedest to keep as far from the Rat Race as possible! Ambient Rambling is where it's at!

Love music - psychedelic 70's rock, punk, roots n' dub and world/trancy sort of stuff in general!

Also do voluntary work for festivals and have been involved in the Norwich Free Festival in it's various guises for a number of years.

My special area of interest is Ilkley Moor. I don't get the opportunity to go back often these days, but I spent much time on the moors in the 1980's... often for days on end. The Twelve Apostles is an old friend of mine! Although I know the moors fairly well, each journey I make back there is still full of discovery. I always seem to find something I haven't seen before.

NB - Since I wrote this I have in fact gotten away from Norwich and now live in Barnsley.

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