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Night walking in the UK
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darkness
Need-to-know language…
app para apostar descends – falls; becomes greater
app para apostar after dark – after sunset
app para apostar night walker – person who walks at night
app para apostar forbidding – scary or threatening
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Why are more people in the UK walking and running at night?
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It has, for many of us, become a lockdown ritual. As darkness app para apostar descends, instead of settling down, it's the moment to head out. Short winter days often mean the only time we can escape for exercise is app para apostar after dark.
Caroline Whiteman is a passionate night walker.
app para apostar Caroline Whiteman, night walker
Our hearing becomes more sensitive. My sense of smell is more acute, and you can really appreciate the air on your face in a way that during daylight hours, these things go unnoticed.
With short winter days - and lockdown - walking and running in the dark has for many of us become a daily ritual.
app para apostar David Sillito, BBC correspondent
So, it's much busier in the streets, isn't it, than it normally is?
app para apostar Professor Loretta Lees, night walking convert
It certainly is!
I joined Professor Loretta Lees - her specialism: how life is changing in towns and cities.
app para apostar David Sillito, BBC correspondent
Do you think there will be a positive benefit?
app para apostar Professor Loretta Lees
I think it will change people's perceptions of safety in their own city, they'll realise that perhaps it's not as unsafe as they, you know, hitherto thought.
Thoughts also shared by Caroline, who feels this is a freedom we should consider more.
app para apostar David Sillito, BBC correspondent
This does fly in the face of advice, especially for women, about not going out walking at night.
app para apostar Caroline Whiteman
I agree. And I would challenge that and say that everybody should be entitled to have an experience and have an adventure by night, and that shouldn't just be the preserve of men. We've been conditioned as women to believe that we have no place out in the night, and yet when you can create a place of safety for yourself whilst night walking, it builds confidence.
It's different neighbourhood to neighbourhood. But for some of us, lockdown has made the dark a little less app para apostar forbidding.
Did you get it?
Why are more people in the UK walking and running at night?
Because the winter days are shorter and those working at home who want to exercise can only do it after dark.
