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From Neuchatel, the guide to the Trans Swiss Trail recommends to take a boat across the lake. This would bring the walker to the village of Cuderfin, to be followed by a short walk northwards to La Sauge before heading eastwards to Mont Vully. However, I had two problems with this proposed route. On a…

In the days after my last outing, the weather seemed unsettled, and I was too busy anyway to continue on my meander across Switzerland. But last week, there was a fall of snow on Tuesday, and he weather started to become dry, and very cold from then on. With the weekend in sight, I made…

After that last outing on the Trans Swiss Trail, the rains came to the west and north of Switzerland. Within days, the snow of the previous week was gone from the streets of Basel. Only in the places where the snow ploughs had piled it up did any snow remain. And by the end of…

The Trans Swiss trail is 32 stages, according to the guidebooks and the website. Last year, the Jura Höhenweg, with only 16 stages, took me 14 days to complete over almost the entire year. So if I am to complete the Trans Swiss Trail in 2021, then there is no time to delay. And it…

The world has moved from 2020 to 2021, and with the new year comes new challenges. Not least among those challenges is to stay healthy in the face of a rampant coronavirus that is mutating to become more infective than before. But life goes on, and life is too short to put everything on hold…

As we pass through the end of one year and the beginning of another, it is a time for both reflection and for looking to the future. After all, that is the origin of the name of this month, January. It is not without reason that the  Romans named this month after a god with…

The last time I wrote about walking on the Jura Höhenweg was back in September. That day, I walked into St. Cergue in relatively good weather. And then I went off to the Camino. Since coming back from Spain, I have been thinking about the Höhenweg. As the year went on, I really wanted to…

I went back to Santander today. After a good breakfast, I left the hotel in Viveda and went for the train. The train from Barreda took me through stations with names familiar from the last two day: Requejada, Mogro, Boo de Pielagos, Bezana, and finally Santander itself. I decided to have a look around the…

Today was a shorter day, and my last day for this trip of heading west on the Camino. After breakfast, I left my accommodation, and headed back to the route. The church of Santa Cruz de Bezana was looking better this morning with a little bit of blue sky overhead. I headed on out of…

I was up as early as I dared, before most of the other pelegrinos, and trying not to wake them. Breakfast in this albergue is at 08:00, and I was there on time. Dawn in this region at this time of year does not come until about 08:15, so it was still quite dark as…