1/ If romantic walking – that philosophical walking practised first in late eighteen century Europe – can be compared (as it has been by some) to the rites of passage defined by anthropologist Victor Turner... facebook.com/mythogeography…

remarkable talk by Chloe Lund, adapted from her presentation at 'Walking's New Movements Conference' at University of Plymouth landincuriosity.co.uk/blog/diverting… landincuriosity.co.uk/blog/diverting…

3/ Sensitization: get your nerves out. Walk for a while in a fictional state (you are detectives and there has been a terrible crime, you are the last survivors of the mind-changing virus, you can smell colours –... facebook.com/mythogeography…

6/ The exploratory element of the drift is not a re-run of colonial appropriation, it’s not about slumming and nor is it some kind of zoology of street life – it’s a way to rewind, to review, to re-infuriate, to... facebook.com/mythogeography…

Play with the senses and use sense self-consciously. For example, make a drift where you look for horizons. Or use your peripheral vision as much as possible. Or touch everything. Switch back and forward between... facebook.com/mythogeography…

I recently shared this photo and Tom Chivers has sent me this two minute film (link below) of the same space - watching I kept seeing the mattress in different scales and dimensions, but I'm not sure it's there at... facebook.com/mythogeography…

Mytho recommends for Exeter friends: ticketsignite.com/event/2360/way… ticketsignite.com/event/2360/way…

and while we're on the subject of ruins, this is coming soon palgrave.com/gb/book/978303… palgrave.com/gb/book/978303…

12/ Boredom is a prelude. From A Handbook of Drifting in 'Mythogeography' (Triarchy Press, 2010)

Terminalia - an opportunity to propose an event... facebook.com/mythogeography…

sometimes at a poetry reading it isn't so much any specific poem, but the range of different poetries that excites you by its conjuring of a breadth of possibilities

14/ Avoid art, mostly. Enjoy rotting, splintered, stained, overgrown or torched public art (fuel for mental détournements).

"Dread Places: Detectable by an unidentifiably sourced anxiety. If the tendency to Pan-ic can be resisted these places offer a chance to experience the precognition and presentiment of... academia.edu/168112/_A_Taxo…

shocking scenes at the model railway

that was quite a rainbow

a few minutes before the rainbow, I took a picture of St Nicholas (more recently Drake's) Island, and I notice now that there is a simulacrum of a white figure walking on the water behind the island (you have to use the magnifier), where the rainbow fell

16/ Generally avoid shops, cinemas and galleries (unless you intend to use them for something for which they are not intended). Instead, seek those public places that are ‘hidden in plain sight’ and visited by... facebook.com/mythogeography…

Khlestakovian Inscrutability This is a means to gain access to otherwise restricted areas, affections and intimacies. It is a kind of self-denying ordinance; a modesty, almost a stupidity; allowing others to... facebook.com/mythogeography…

17/ Drifts do not have leaders or guides. If they do then they have become something else. If someone is initiating the whole thing then they need to think about how they hand over to everyone else. A good drift... facebook.com/mythogeography…

woah, the leader of the Bards, Ovates and Druids talks about and reads from 'Armchair Pilgrimage' - from 8 mins and 50 secs facebook.com/druidry/videos… facebook.com/mythogeography…