If the critical ingredients of an adventure are to go somewhere new and be curious then a “microadventure” can be found anywhere, even in rural Britain with only a few days to spare. Long before the mesh of rolling English roads developed the Romans were striding in famously straight lines across our land. The Fosse Way was their longest, stretching from Isca Dumnoniorum to Lindum Colonia, or Exeter to Lincoln as we now know them. I decided to explore some of it, on foot, at the pace of a Roman soldier. I would carry little more than a cooking pan, a sleeping bag, and a few maps. Where the Fosse Way has evolved over 2000 years into large, modern roads I would follow my nose cross-country until I found another off-road segment.