Before today, I only ever came across the term in The Lord of the Rings (FOTR) during the scene “Fool of a Took!” I imagined a group of fat matrons walking outdoors in pairs, shoulder-to-shoulder, chatting incessantly. But online definitions put it closer to being a “mobile party” with people simply going places and having a fun time. One even used the term metaphorically to describe a person or several persons, “They’re a walking party.”
So, assuming you find the need or the compulsion, how would you set it up: the company, the place(s), the activities?
If it needed organizing, I might do it as a game. Perhaps a scavenger hunt, or a photo scavenger hunt. Maybe a photo bingo game.
In the past, I’ve been in photo “assassination” games, where the deal is to get a picture of the victim, and this counts as having “sniped” them. However, in today’s terrorism-conscious situation, this might be too alarming. Pity!
Some kind of GPS orienteering or geocaching approach could be fun.
(I’m probably misinterpreting your needs drastically!)
I’ve only heard the term used as a substitute for pub crawl.
Tolkien’s friend, C. S. Lewis, several times organized vacations where he and several other friends would spend several days walking across the English countryside. The villages were close enough that you could walk from one to another in a single morning or afternoon. So you could start the day leaving from the inn you spent the night at in one village. You would eat lunch at a pub in the village you reached at lunch time. You could stay that night at the inn in the village you arrived at late in the day. This is probably what Tolkien was thinking about.
Growing up, several family holidays were spent here, or other places much like it.
Basically holidays organised around walking parties taking different walks every day (packed lunch supplied!) with some home-made entertainment in the evenings. Now it’a all en-suite accomodation but back them it was often dormitories and annexes, etc. especially for the children. And all a bit amateur-seeming and slightly shabby, like a slightly run-down ancestral pile.
Good times.
Strolled from Cafe Society to MPSIMS, with no stops at pubs along the way.
Because many Americans won’t know the term “en-suite accommodation,” it means that there’s a bathroom in each hotel (or whatever) room, rather than one down the hallway for several rooms to share.