Dearest,

What is there left to say? What is the right thing to say? Do 
words come naturally when I look in your eyes? Do I speak out
of fear and are words knives; acts of agression: to dissect;
to render deep feelings harmless? Does the Dark Side disappear
in the light of contemplation? Or do fear and pain just hide at
a deeper level?

I learn, therefore I exist.
I ask, so I may learn. 
I speak to create. 
I speak to be part of humanity.
To be part of humanity is all I ask for.

This Sunday we'll go to the south end of the Peak District, where
the rivers have cut deep valleys in the limestone rocks. Dove
Dale is particularly nice (and in all the books) with natural
arches, vertical rocks, and lonely pinnacles. All in bits of
forests and fields. The favourite spot of the famous fisherman
Izaak Walton, author of the "compleat angler."
In between the valleys are gentle undulating fields, farmland, 
and old villages; ideal for a late autumn Sunday walkabout in the
low sun.

1) THE TISSINGTON TRAIL From Newhaven (on the A515) follow the track
of a old dismantled railway almost all the way to Ilam, through 
the fields and the low hills. In the end a short bit of Dove Dale 
and into Ilam.
(17km, 150m ascent)
2) THE LONG DOVE DALE WALK From Ilam along the beautiful valley of
Dove Dale, with rocks rising up on both sides. Into Wolfcote Dale,
and returning over the fields and along the Manifold River and Ilam
Hall.
(20km, 400m ascent)
3) THE SHORT DOVE DALE WALK First along Ilam Hall and the Manifold 
River, then over the hills and through the fields to Hall Dale,
Dove Dale and back to Ilam.
(12km, 200m ascent)
4) THE MANIFOLD WAY A bit along the river, through Musden Wood, to
the track of the Manifold Way along the river, over the hills and
into Hall Dale and Dove Dale. Out of Dove Dale again at Ilam Rock,
and through the fields to Ilam.
(18km, 600m ascent)

Yours,

Norbert