Welcome to a special Ramble Worldwide takeover episode of Walking This Way.

As a Ramble Worldwide ambassador Lise is joined this week by Donna Noble, a yoga educator and author of Demystifying Yoga: Making Yoga Inclusive for Everybody, and Jacqueline Hooton, the personal trainer behind Her Garden Gym on Instagram and author of Strong: The Definitive Guide to Active Aging. The three of them met on a Ramble Worldwide solo women's walking weekend in the Lake District, arriving as strangers and leaving as friends.

Ramble Worldwide has just launched their brand new brochure and excitingly there are 40 new tours included. They have been running walking holidays for 80 years so they really do know what they are doing. There really is something for most people, from gentle walks to big mountain days and everything in between. You can go on a cruise combined and do walks on shore days. Go to Barbados or Morocco. You can go solo, as a couple, with friends or as a private group, to incredible places all over the world. It also runs women-only tours, and every walk is led by a trained volunteer expert leader, which takes a lot of the worry out of it.

Plenty of women still assume a walking holiday is not for them, so this is a chat about who these trips are actually for, what travelling solo with a group is really like, and why it can be worth simply putting one foot in front of the other.

In this episode, join Lise and discover:

• How Donna, who had never done a proper walk before, got on during the weekend
• What was going through Jacqueline's head before the walk, from pace and steep descents to bathroom breaks, and how the tour leader paced the group so nobody felt left behind
• Why walking side-by-side leads to honest conversations between strangers, and how the weekend suited both the introverts and the extrovers
• What Donna and Jacqueline would say to a woman who wants to try something but feels she is not fit enough, young enough or brave enough

Quote of the episode
“Walking is probably the most accessible form of exercise there is. You don’t need to be particularly fit, you don’t need to be young and you don’t need much equipment. And yet lots of women still don’t necessarily think walking holidays, walking groups or outdoor adventure are for them. Why?” - Lise Thorne

Useful links

• Ramble Worldwide: https://www.rambleworldwide.co.uk/
• Ramble Worldwide brochure: https://www.rambleworldwide.co.uk/brochures/2026-2027-walking-holidays-brochure
• Donna's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donnanobleyoga
• Jacqueline's Instagram, Her Garden Gym: https://www.instagram.com/hergardengym

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It's a warm late September afternoon in Harrogate, and Lise is strolling across The Stray with her friend Jo Moseley. There are no dogs on this Out & About, just two friends, a bit of autumn creeping into the air, and a lot to catch up on before they head back to the hotel to get changed for a special event in the evening.

Join Lise and discover...

• How a dip in Buttermere and a very early start turned two strangers into firm friends
• Why Jo's first paddleboarding lesson at 51 changed everything, and what came after
• A walk around The Stray in Jo's home town
• How Instagram can open the door to new friendships, adventures and walking opportunities
• Why midlife, and life after menopause, can feel like a gift

Quote of the episode

"If you want to do something, you just need to sort of crack on really." – Jo Moseley

Useful links

Follow Jo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jomoseley

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This week, Lise is joined by Penny Menato of RosaBlue, who she met on a Ramble Worldwide walking weekend in the Lake District and immediately clicked with. Penny hand-makes every single piece she sells, cuts it all out herself, pins it together in front of the telly, and has never been on a podcast before. So this is a bit of a world exclusive, and a lovely one.

Lise has been reading up on fast fashion and the facts are grim, the sheer mountains of clothes that get sent abroad or end up in landfill, but this isn't a guilt trip. Penny's message is simple: just do something. Buy your next thing in a natural fabric, sew the button back on, chop the sleeves off that baggy shirt and suddenly it's a summer top. This is one for anyone who love clothes and wants to shop with a bit more thought, and for anyone who wishes they knew how to darn!

In this episode, join Lise and discover:

• How Penny went from knitting jumpers to pay her way through university in South Africa to running RosaBlue
• The textile waste figures that stopped Lise in her tracks, including one wash of polyester clothing releasing as many as 700,000 microplastic fibres, and around 711,000 tonnes of textiles a year going into general rubbish in the UK
• What happens to online returns and unsold stock
• Simple things to try now, from buying your next item in a natural fabric to sewing on that button, shortening a baggy t-shirt and turning an old duvet cover into a dress
• How Penny built a loyal Instagram community from her phone by posting every day, and why she says to enjoy the little things right in front of you.

Quote of the episode

"Just do something. Don't throw away your entire wardrobe if it's full of polyester. But next time you buy something, just buy it in a natural fabric."
– Penny Menato

Useful links

• Penny's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosablue/
• RosaBlue: https://www.rosablue.com/
• Penny's Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/RosablueOriginals

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