Philosopher’s Path is four kilometres of canal-side walking, and it can be finished in under an hour. We take half a day. We sit on benches that face nothing in particular. We stop at temples that are not famous. We let people pass us, repeatedly. The point is not the distance, and never was. The point is to remember that walking is not transportation.
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