With my tender heels plastered and padded by our psychiatric nurse (on honeymoon - honeymoon! - with her Glaswegian groom), day one was no worse than a humid three-hour tramp, up from the Kilimanjaro National Park gates to 8,500ft through a lush but oddly quiet rainforest.
A constant stream of visitors tramp up to this point and make pouting, starlet poses for the camera, lining themselves up with a set of rather plain and higgledy letters that rise behind them on the slopes of Mount Lee – the world-famous Hollywood Sign.
Not widely known at home outside dissident and intellectual circles in Prague, he became a focus for some Western diplomats and visitors, who would tramp up to the top-floor apartment of a six-story house that his father had built and philosophize with Mr. Havel while gazing across the Vltava River at the Prague Castle, long the seat of the country's rulers.
A tramp shows up by chance, and the woman takes a liking to him.
After marching across 57th Street to Carnegie Hall (No. 48), tramp up Seventh Avenue and turn left on Central Park South for the 750-foot-tall Time Warner Center towers (No. 105), which loom ahead like something out of a postmodern knife drawer.
While the actors tramp up and down the same few blocks on the studio back lot, the screenplay by Mr. Cosby and Charles Kipps, which is so threadbare as to be nearly transparent, lazes from cliché to cliché.
Gloucester tramps up an absurd little wedge of a cliff at Dover.
We tramped up a dusty road, past postcard sellers, under the midday sun, until we reached the Corinth archaeological site — a cream-colored building with a green door, where, we were told, we should take our artifact.
"Wait till you see this factory, it's so cool," Bader shouts behind her as she tramps up a metal staircase sheathed in ice.
Clutching his little case, garbed with the over-formality of a tramp, in a hat picked up from a racecourse by his grandfather and a boot bought from a one-legged man for 8d, he sometimes looks like a glum Mary Poppins.
And here came Arriba Puyol! 32 years old, from La Pobla de Segur in the Lleida section of Catalonia, a lifer in the great Barcelona club, tramping up from his defender position and elevating himself in a vacuum.
