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Early on a frosty morning, I set out from the train station at Dagmersellen. I was the only person getting off at that stop, so it looked like I would be walking alone for much of the day. The roads were silent as I made my way through the town, but that changed as I…

Sometimes other things get in the way of my walking and hiking. Unfortunately, I have to work for a living, and in the last few weeks, work got in the way of my preferred activities. However, there comes a time when the call of the trail cannot be ignored, so I set time aside last…

In that quiet time between Christmas and New Year, it is always good to get out for a walk. My sister and I have developed what is now almost an annual routine of going up a local mountain, Lugnaquilla, immediately after Christmas.  It is a way, not so much of undoing the excesses of Christmas,…

In my last posting, I outlined how my journey along the Via Gottardo had reached Olten. I decided to take a slight detour before going further along this route. Last week, there were flurries of snow in Basel. It did not last long. The snow started early one morning, but in the city, it had…

After completing my two main projects for this year, the Camino de Santiago, and the Trans Swiss Trail, I started looking around for what might come next. In the last few years, I have managed a Swiss project and an international project. In 2020, the trans Swiss Trail  was my Swiss project, and the Camino…

Lugano is almost surrounded by mountains, but some are more prominent than others. Just to the south of the city is Monte San Salvatore, dominating the views in that direction. Even in the half-light of a city at night, it can be seen clearly from almost all parts of Lugano. And that was to be…

For the last two stages of the Trans Swiss Trail, I was happy to be accompanied by my friend Matthias. Because of the distance from Basel, we agreed to make a weekend of it, and to do the two stages on a Saturday and Sunday. The first of these two stages would take us from…

After the completion of the Camino de Santiago, as documented in these pages, for this post I am going back to the Trans Swiss Trail. When I left it to go off to Spain, there were three stages left to be completed, about 75km. This latest stage was to take me from Biasca to Bellinzona.…

While walking the Camino de Santiago, I went over the Hospitales section in miserable weather. It was a bleak landscape, and though in sunshine it might be beautiful, on that day, the wildness only added to the gloom. But I walked on through the mist and the rain until I came to my destination for…