Parkway Picnics

How British Roadside Repasts Changed the Way I Viewed Summer's Favorite Meal, the Picnic.

British travelers picnicking by the roadside. Image from The Telegraph, UK.

During the summer and autumn of 1987, I traveled around the United Kingdom with a friend. We drove from London to Edinburgh to Ben Nevis to Loch Ness to the Isle of Skye and down to Blackpool before settling into a log cabin in the New Forest in southern England.

While we were m…