This post was written on May 9th but not posted until May 10th due to lack of internet connections. Breakfast was light at Chez Regine. In fact it was very light. Regine does not seem to believe in serving breakfast, so I was left to take a small bottle of orange juice from the fridge.…
Read More
This post was prepared on May 8th, but not posted until May 10th due to lack of internet connection in the interim. Today was another good day. Now so far as yesterday, and not so much up and sown as the day before. I started out fm St. Alban sur Limagnole shortly after 08:00. There…
Read More
Today was long, very long. After the ascents and descents of yesterday, I was happy to have a more level route today, but it was long. 32.5km when I add up all the sections I started out from Saugues shortly after 08:00, and was happy to be walking in the cool of the morning. The…
Read MoreToday was very much about heights: ascending and descending. I started out from St. Privat d’Allier just after 08:30 this morning. First, there was a short backtracking to the town square, which is at about 850 metres above sea level. From there the track winds gradually upwards. It was a misty morning, but even in…
Read More
Yes, I am back on the route that will ultimately, I hope, bring me to Santiago. This year I have started without fanfare, without discussion, and without rehearsals. Though having said that, I have walked 6 stages of “Walking the Borders of Basel” so itt is not like I have been totally idle for the…
Read More
From Bretzwil, I headed north on the road towards Seewen. After a few hundred metres, I came to the settlement of Mühle on the right. Is it possible for a village like Bretzwil to have suburbs? If so, then Mühle is a suburb of Bretzwil. There is a footpath alongside the road all the way…
Read More
It took two trains and a bus to bring me from Basel to Langenbruck. At the Langenbruck Unterdorf stop, the trail begins right away. There are some steps behind the bus stop that led up to a meadow above the village. Then the trail took a Z shape onto a forest trail that led the…
Read MoreWe are into April, and it is time to look at what has been achieved in the first quarter. Remember that the objectives for 2018 included some significant walking projects as well as ending the year with at least as many steps as in 2017. In 2017, I recorded 6.3 million steps for the…
Read More
As with every other day, stage 4 of the walk begins where stage 3 ended. So an early morning found me in the village of Anwil ready to start. Anwil is a quiet village, with very little stirring when the bus dropped me off shortly before 8 AM. Taking the trail to the south of…
Read More
The end of the last journey is the start of the next one. So I arrived in Maisprach early in the morning, exactly where I had stopped last time. Maisprach and the surrounding farmlands are part of Basel Landschaft canton, but like a peninsula jutting out into Aargau territory. So I was faced with the…
Read More
Walkingman 