The next stage of my journey on the Via Jura followed the walk I had taken back in January. But while the terrain was the same, the walk was completely different. Naturally, in early May, there was no snow. And even though it was early morning, the sun was already shining when I stepped of…
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I arrived back in Laufen on a sunny morning at the start of May. Laufen is allowed to have a major fair on that day, and I expected lots of stands with dealers in the centre of the town. In the “before times” of the pre-Covid years, the centre would be thronged with people, even…
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With the Chemin de Jura behind me, it was time to move on to the second of my Swiss objectives for 2024. I would still be in the jura region, but on a longer trail. The Via Jura goes from Basel to Biel. Its name is perhaps incorrect. Maybe it should be called the Via…
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I did not wait too long before coming back to the Chemin de Jura. The guide to the route advises two stages between St-Ursanne and the end of the trail at Saignelégier. I had walked from St-Ursanne to Saignelégier before, when walking the Trans Swiss Trail, and I had done it in one day. That…
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A few weeks later, I was back on the trail again. I took the train to Porrentruy and started out on the next section of the Chemin de Jura. This section would take me to St-Ursanne. It is a route that I have walked before. When I walked the Trans Swiss Trail in 2021, that…
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I started my next stage of the Chemin de Jura several weeks later. Life and work had intervened to keep me away from hiking for those weeks. That meant that when I at last had the time to go hiking, I was going to take that opportunity regardless of the weather. And the weather was…
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A few weeks after my walk in the snow, I was back in Delémont, this time to make a start on the Chemin de Jura. The town was quite different from my previous visit: there was no snow on the ground, and the early morning not quite so dark, even though the time was the…
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To start the year, I wanted to have a walk in the snow. I had been surprised to find myself walking snow in November, but in January there was bound to be some snow in the Jura mountains. I would avail of that, I thought, and at the same time do a reconnaissance on at…
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It is quite some time since I wrote an entry here. Whether for better or for worse, there are other facets to my life besides walking, and they interfere with both my walking and my writing. I am glad to say that although I have been busy on other things (in fact the first three…
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As we come to the end of 2023, it is worth looking back at my walking highlights, and the impact that they had on my thinking. Back in January, I set myself three objectives: I set out three Drauma Dolls, one for each objective. I set those dolls on a shelf in my office where…
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