Going shopping on foot can be quite agreeable, especially if you can walk to a market place (e.g. Krakow’s Stary Kleparz) to look at numerous fruits and vegetables in their variety of colours and aromas. Such places also facilitate encounters – we pass people of various nationalities, strangers of various dispositions. It also feels good to eventually stop at a stall to buy tomatoes or apples, or anything else we might fancy.

Walking around market squares is usually exceptionally pleasant, as long as it does not last too long. A change of scenery is highly advisable. We can then go walking through the town, on the pavement or the road, provided it is free of speeding vehicles. The advantage of walking on the road over walking on the pavement is the joy of transgression. One should remember that the longer we shop, the heavier the load we carry, and carrying around the weight of several kilograms deprives us of many of the joys of taking a walk. A certain form of burden is also the purpose