AN ENIGMATIC ‘barefoot wanderer’ has been creating a stir in Kendal.

The bushy-bearded hiker turned shoppers’ heads as he walked through Wainwright’s Yard on Monday.

But although happy to reveal he has been wandering barefoot since 2008 when he also renounced all forms of mechanical transport, the characterful visitor preferred everything else about him to remain a mystery.

Names, ages and job descriptions were unnecessary labels, he told a reporter.

“If you asked any other animal on the planet what they did for a living, they would be perplexed,” he declared.

The man-with-no-shoes also declined to reveal where he was from, preferring to respond with the philosophically cryptic: “We’re all from nowhere, yet everywhere.”