Sorely tempted to break the parsimonious piggy bank that this journey on this budget has required, and just get to one of the northern cities I've visited on these travels, get some coffee, sit down at the table, read a bit, and then take it from there. But as the range of events in the solution set would be greatly reduced by doing this, I'll hold my peace, and make a stand in the south, at least for the nonce. Which is wise not for the obvious reason, but because even the largest of the more northern cities on the peninsula are still just further on down the highway towards Christminster.
A distance of a nutshell is the same as the distance of a continent. Establish the right relation with where you are, as well as the places around it, near or far, alone or in groups, that form the mysterious constellation.