Monte Amiata, the highest point in southern Tuscany, is also delightful walking country, but for something more strenuous head to the north, where the Alpi Apuane offer a 60km spread of genuinely Alpine spectacle.
In the meantime, one can avoid the parking lots by following the HarborWalk, a delightful walking path that runs along the water's edge from downtown.
Recently, my husband and I shared a delectable tongue sandwich with a side of kasha varnishkas and almost danced out of the restaurant for a delightful walk home.
A delightful walk along a deeply shaded path takes us to an overlook, where the rugged coast appears in all its glory.
At the end, in much the oldest piece, came simple charm: Lou Harrison's "Praise for the Beauty of Hummingbirds," a delightful walk for flute with a pair of violins, celesta and percussion.
The show is a delightful walk-in bestiary whose inhabitants have the urgency and some of the striking abbreviations and translations of folk art, including a rather amazing range of lion's manes, eyes and snouts.
It was a pretty sight to see as we walked upon the sands when the tide was low perhaps a hundred people bathing about ¼ of a mile distant from us and we had delightful walks after the heat of the day was passed away," the poet's sister records in The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, edited by Marion Moorman (Oxford).
Trains from London to East Grinstead, Eridge, Uckfield and Crowborough, buses to Wych Cross and Chelwood Gate, ashdownforest.org Distance 3.7 miles One of the beauties of this delightful walk up on the 450m Catbells ridge is that, if you're based in Keswick, you don't need a car to reach the start point.
"Our delightful walk back from the sailing club to the hotel turned fairly nasty when two guys wielding 7-inch knives ran at us, pushed us around and grabbed everything we had.
It encourages other working class people to explore the "many delightful walks by pleasant streams and through green woods in summertime" and requests landowners "at least to preserve the old footpaths which cross their fields and woods if they should decline to allow fresh ones to be made".
The show, running through April 2 at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa, is almost apologetically educational -- it means to be that way, I think -- and as long as it sticks to this attitude, which it does for just about the first half of its 90 minutes, it is effective and sometimes delightful, deftly walking the line between adult and children's entertainment so that both are entertained.
