Brisks walks and bike-rides are free, and you’re *in* the world, not hermetically sealed away from it like you are in a car.

And the most relaxing, centering, soulful thing I’ve ever done was put warm clothes on and lay at the bottom of the garden at night, away from all the lights, watching meteors against the wheeling backdrop of stars and the occasional hurrying satellite. Doing this undid at least a week of stress accumulated in my day-job….

I don’t know why people stay indoors so much in some countries. (It’s not just the weather).