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In Confessions, Jean Jacques Rousseau writes that he can only meditate when he is walking.

Bill Robb/This Week

Academy Street in Hillsborough is a pleasant and scenic walk.

"When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs."

To give those legs a fine stretch, take a walk all the way to the end of Academy Street in Hillsborough, which runs off the main street on Route 114.

Then walk back again and you will be ready to sample some of the down-home country cuisine you can find in this wonderful community.

The street itself is a perfect picture of idyllic town living, a taste of the rural with all the convenience of town.

Children play outside now that spring is here, and home owners work on cleaning winter's calling cards from their large yards.

Too often when people visit Hillsborough, their only stop is on the main drag.

That's a shame, really, because the roads that lead up the hill to the right are just a joy to walk around.

In the summer, there are lots of tourist in the town and a number of attractions and shops welcome them.

A walk along the Main Street is pleasant, and once can imagine back to how the town must have appeared when William H. Steeves, one of the Fathers of Confederation, lived there.

Many people from Moncton and Riverview make the drive to Hillsborough simply to shop at Hillsborough Fashions, and others come to play at its golf course.

For a genuine woodland hike, there is the magnificent Wetlands Park and Waterfowl Habitat, just teeming with life in this spring of the year.