I would rather meet these Riders (if we must meet them) on a road, where there is a chance of meeting ordinary honest travellers as well.
The black riders will become ordinary travellers looking for a friend, in a week or two - if they don't come back.
Nowadays they are focused on ordinary travellers and cargo.
In England ordinary travellers know nothing about espionage.
They might have been ordinary travellers who had picked up the diligence at Mantes.
'It's much more difficult to get to because it's less accessible to the ordinary traveller,' he says.
I don't know the details of famine in Kenya now, but as an "ordinary" traveller you will hardly meet starving people on your way.
Even now I look back on him with a definite amount of resentment, which the ordinary traveller would not understand.
There was a good road north for ordinary travellers.
We look at what can be done - and how the ordinary traveller is affected.