Looking back, how have the ways you get around shaped your sense of a place or a time in your life?

A natural way to answer

I think the way you move through a place really colours how you remember it. The years I cycled everywhere felt freer and more connected than the ones I spent commuting by car, almost on autopilot, barely noticing the world go by.

Key phrases to use

• rat run — a small back street that drivers use as a shortcut to avoid busy main roads“Locals use this lane as a rat run to skip the high street.”