Nonnie Living in town and country, I have always walked because it is more interesting and no, it isn't walking the same route every day. It is having a large number of different routes taking one over a large area.
It is being out in all weathers and all seasons. Seeing the land change, hearing the first lark of the year, seeing primroses suddenly colonise the country side round my village, topping up my vitamin D. Stopping and chatting to other people I meet. City walking is just as varied, different architecture, parks and gardens, going down little ginnels and finding all sorts of surprises; businesses you didn't know that were there, new developments and again being out all weathers and seeing the changes of the seasons in peoples gardens.
NonnaW I do a weekly pilates class that starts at 8.25am and I go for my walk at 7.00 am or earlier if the light permits, but I am one of life's larks and usually up at 6.00am.
Currently I am doing no exercise at all. I too have the dreaded lurgy, I had hoped it would have cleared by now and I had planned to return to my Tai Chi class tomorrow, but realise now it may well be another week before I am well again and back to my daily walk.