Walking Post podcast 10: The Strawberry Line and Holy Dirt by Molly Lord

This week we have conversations about a a recently-published book about walking the Camino in Spain, and about an old railway line, the Strawberry Line, being turned into a walking route in Somerset.Interview times:04:53 The Strawberry Line22:55 Molly Lord – Holy DirtHoly Dirt - A Camino Journey: Out of my mind. Into My Body. Saved By Song. by Molly LordMolly Lord is an educator with a career spent in varied fields of human behaviour studies, and runs her own company, Tuned-In Productions, which hosts workshops, keynotes, and virtual training to highlight the scientific and spiritual link between behaviour patterns that run our day-to-day lives and music.Molly heeded the call to walk the Camino de Santago, and was subsequently encouraged to recount her experiences. The result is Holy Dirt, A Camino Journey: Out of my mind. Into My Body. Saved By Song.The book that doesn’t conform to the usual Camino memoir. With QR codes to listen to the music that was important on the journey, and special sections in each chapter, the book is already drawing rave reviews. It is published by Brave Healer Productions, and is available now.The Strawberry LineThe Strawberry Line was the nickname of the Cheddar Valley Line, a Great Western Railway branch line that ran from Witham Junction to Yatton via Shepton Mallet, Wells and Cheddar.It was operational until the late 1960s and is now being transformed into a greenway through North and Mid-Somerset. The path will be suitable for walkers, cyclists, wheelchair users, mobility scooters, and on some sections, equestrians.Once completed, the Strawberry Line path will run from Shepton Mallet to Clevedon, incorporating the Cheddar Valley Line trackbed wherever possible, as well as much of the disused Clevedon branch line.More than half of the route is already open. Volunteers of the Strawberry Line Society continue to work with landowners and local councils to maintain existing sections and work on new ones.The Strawberry Line will also form part of the Somerset Circle, a 76-mile, mostly traffic-free circuit linking Bristol, Bath, the Mendip Hills, the Somerset Levels and the coast. More than two thirds of the route has already been completed, and includes the Colliers Way, the Two Tunnels Greenway, the Bristol & Bath Railway Path, and the River Avon Trail.On the podcast this week we have a conversation with chair of The Strawberry Line Society, Mick Fletcher.To get in touch with the podcast, email us at [email protected]