Walkabout meaning: A short period of wandering bush life engaged in by an Australian aborigine as an occasional interruption of regular work. Often used in the phrase "Go Walkabout" This is Ludlow, Shropshire, a medieval market town of many contrasts. Beautiful in it's shabbiness. In England, you don't have to travel too far before you pass through yet another village like this. It's time we started to cherish them as they are beginning to perish. Where's your favourite location to go walkabout in?