The Doorstep Traveller

The Doorstep Traveller

We're in recession, we shouldn't fly because of our carbon footprint, we shouldn't do this and we shouldn't do that. But one thing you can do and that is become a Doorstep Traveller.

We have all probably been Doorstep Travellers at one point or another, but have you really travelled around what is on your doorstep? Have you got out the local guide book that a tourist would use and really had a good nose about?

Now I am with child this is something I intend to do a lot more. So what are the most common things you go and see when you are travelling? You go to:

• Museums
• Churches/Places of worship
• Galleries
• Buildings of Architectural Significance
• Parks
• Ruins
• History
• Woodland
• Beautiful countryside

My Doorstep has this in abundance - it even has a beach, one of those places to get away from it all and relax. Fair enough the beaches on my doorstep don't inspire the ads for suncream, nor have you racing to get a sunbed before the other tourists, but the pebbly beaches of Worthing and Lancing really can be interesting, if you know how to look at them.

What else if there on your doorstep? What else do you look for when you are travelling? Different cultures? Most cities and give you a great big dollop of different cultures.

So really, ask yourself, do you need to go to some far flung exotic location when you can be a Doorstep Traveller? Well, yes. We just don't get the weather here and lets face it, exploring Worthing isn't quite the same as exploring Rome.

But wait, I haven't mentioned the Churches in Worthing - Worthing Tabernacle Church, the first, 'in the round' church I have been into (Excluding the Font in Brighton which is now a pub). Most churches I have been usually stick to the cross style of layout. And to rival Rome, or the Sistine Chapel to be more precise is the wonderfully painted English Martyrs Church in Goring. A labour of love for artist Gary Bevans, who has reproduced the painted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel on the 'aircraft hanger' 1960's roof. A transformation and on my doorstep.

I'm going to draw a circle around Horsham, roughly 25 miles travel and see what else may tickle my fancy for my doorstep travels. There must be a list as long as my arm, so watch out there will be more of my ramblings on what I find. So save money in the recession, save the planet and discover what is on your doorstep. Join me and become a Doorstep Traveller.

What is on your doorstep? What do you recommend? Fellow Doorstep Travellers, tell the world what we should be seeing!