Hannah Engelkamp talks about walking Wales with a spirited donkey, children, adventures and the pandemic. Her current passion is inspiring others to walk Slow Ways routes, a new network of direct paths, from settlement to settlement, across Great Britain.

Hannah is a writer and editor with a background in adventure magazines and websites. In 2013 she travelled waywardly around the circumference of Wales, 1000 miles, with a characterful donkey called Chico as her companion. In 2015 she published ‘Seaside Donkey’, a book and a feature-length film of the same, detailing her unusual adventure.

In this episode, Zoe talks with Hannah about her adventures with her young children, taking on the position of wardens on Bardsey Island for six months with her partner, and her experience of the pandemic, with no garden and two children to occupy. There are surprising similarities between donkey and toddler, Hannah reveals.

More recently, Hannah was appointed as the Culture, Imagination and Story Lead for Slow Ways, a project working towards creating a trusted network of walking routes that connect settlements and encourage people to walk and engage with the land for their everyday routines in addition to leisure walking. There will be a later episode of HeadRightOut in which full attention is given to Seaside Donkey, as Chico would naturally expect...

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Hannah Engelkamp -

Website: www.seasidedonkey.co.uk (http://seasidedonkey.co.uk/shop-2/ for the book and film) 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seasidedonkey/

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/hannahengelkamp

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SeasideDonkey

Slow Ways -

Website: www.slowways.org

Swarm including the link to the Google doc for submitting film clips from your walk.

https://beta.slowways.org/Page/the-swarm-how-far-can-we-walk-in-a-weekend

Map to use for searching for routes needing verification or choosing new walks to pioneer: https://slowways.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/interactivelegend/index.html?appid=7a48a682d41d450b99772f2e25d15d29

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slowwaysuk/

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/SlowWaysUK

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SlowWaysUK

Where to find HeadRightOut and Zoe on social media:

https://www.facebook.com/HeadRightOut/

https://www.instagram.com/headrightout/

https://twitter.com/HeadRightOut

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-langley-wathen/

zoe@headrightout.com

Music used in this episode:

Intro, outro and transitions - ‘Stay Strong’ by Caffeine Creek Band

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