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This piece was written on September 24, but only posted on September 25th. After I wrote up my walking log yesterday, I went to the restaurant for dinner with my fellow occupant of the Gite. The restaurant does a special “Pilgrim’s Menu” at just €15. That included a salad starter, main course and desert. We…

This post was written on September 23rd, but is only posted on September 25th Yesterday, a combination of three trains and one bus brought me to the little town of Saint-Julie-en-Genevois. The town is just inside France, but is in many respects a suburb of Swiss Geneva. I found a delightful little pizzeria, and had…

I was in Dublin at the weekend. Dublin, Ireland, that is, and not one of its many namesakes on the other side of the Atlantic. I have a love-hate relationship with the city. I grew up there, so it will always be the first city of my memory. But growing up and reaching adulthood is…

The weekend just gone was a quiet one in terms of walking. After the intensity of the previous weekend, you could say that I took it easy. On Sunday, I went back to one of my favourites: a walk around Basel. Even though I have walked the city so many times, I always enjoy it,…

If you have read my previous postings, you will notice that I have a tendency to look for poetic connections when I am walking, connections to walking in general, but also to the specifics of where I am going and what I am doing. I was reminded of this last weekend when I was out…

Having completed the stage 2 of the Aargauer Weg on Saturday, I was resolved to continue with stage 3 on Sunday. Stage 3 takes up exactly where stage 2 left off, at the railway station in Brugg. I did not spend time in Brugg looking for interesting sights, but immediately followed the hiking route out…

In an earlier posting I described walking the first stage of the Aargauer Weg, that trail of 103 km that takes you through all that Aargau canton has to offer. The first stage took me through the hills from Frick to Aarau, the cantonal capital. This second stage starts where that one left off and…

I mentioned in previous posts about my intention to walk the route of the Chemin de Saint Jacques (The Way of Saint James). In my most recent post on this topic, I explained how I have broken down the 340 kilometers into manageable daily segments. So now it is time for the final preparations. Fist…

Walking can be an important part of commuting. I mentioned before how I often take a long way to work so that I build up my step count early in the day. Even though I live just barely 500m from my office, I often walk a circuitous route so that I take nearly 3 kilometers…

In other postings, I have written about some of my favourite walks. One was in Basel, Switzerland, and the other in County Sligo in Ireland. I will return to Ireland for this one, to the little town of Midleton in County Cork. I lived in Midleton for four years, and I still go back there…