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In my last posting, I wrote about my intentions to walk the next stages of the route to Santiago de Compostela. Having walked the stages from Luzern to Geneva, it is time to take time to walk a section of the route through France. The intention is to walk from Geneva to L-Puy-en-Velay. Once I…

There are a few walking routes that have names known all over the world. You can mention their name, and even the person who only takes a Sunday afternoon stroll will have some idea of where they are and what they involve. These routes conjure up images in the mind. The images may not be…

This time, I am not sure if the work that I want to discuss actually counts as poetry. Some people will undoubtedly say that it is not, but I will go ahead anyway. In the early 1930s in Britain, it was a fairly grim place. Unemployment was rising, and even those in average employment were…

The Aargauer Weg is intended to take the hiker through a selection of the attractions of Aargau canton. It is a route of diverse sights, from ancient woodlands and farming pastures to historic Hapsburg castles. Altogether, the route is 103km in length, split into 5 sections. For this walk, I chose the first section. Well,…

As you can imagine, I keep a photographic record of most of my walks. I was looking through some of those photographs recently, and I came across photos that brought back memories of one of my favourite walks. The walk in question is not a long all-day walk, but rather a short one that just…

Unfortunately, last week, I was not able to post stuff here due to other commitments. Actually, I was traveling on business, and some of my thoughts arising from that trip are the focus of today’s posting. I am fortunate overall in that my work involves a certain amount of traveling to other places. However, the…

In my last posting here, I mentioned going to the Raffeisen Skywalk at Mostelberg last weekend. Well, the bridge was not the only reason for my going there. I had decided to walk from Mostelberg to Rotenflue, taking in the mountain called Mythen. Mythen is a massive rocky peak in the canton of Schwyz. It…

The Indiana Jones films are well known to a great many people. And the second one in the series, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, contains some thrilling scenes on a rope bridge across a deep gorge. The bridge in the film is not the most secure, with flimsy ropes, and missing planking. So…

There are many poems about the concept of walking as a metaphor for life. In the English language, perhaps the best known is Robert Frost’s The Road not Taken. The poem was first published in 1916. Frost later remarked that readers tended to take the poem more seriously than he intended. It was very close…