León, Astorga, Hiker's Madness
León I walk the 40km to León. It’s mostly flat, and much of it trails alongside motorways and down dirt tracks between warehouses, service stations and café-bars with plastic chairs. Today is the day that I decide to try dictating into my phone so that I can write as I go, because otherwise the endless dirt roads will swallow me whole. I won’t subject anyone to the whole thing but here’s an excerpt: I don't know whether it would be a god awful idea to more as a piece of kind of almost art or poetry than serious non-fiction writing to just attempt to dictate something from start to finish I mean obviously once it was presented publicly nobody has to believe that it's not edited, in fact they might not comma and actually I think there would have to be some edits just because of the quality of the transcription but I sort of like the slightly frantic unpunctuated rambling tone of it which again is more a feature of the of the software and of my delivery which is actually relativ...
