After ignoring the Schwarzwald in favour of hiking in Switzerland for almost 16 years, I have already been there twice this year. On my first visit, I went to the third highest summit in the Schwarzwald, which was Belchen. Then there was the second highest summit, Herzogenhorn. So it made perfect sense that my third…
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Not many instrumentals make it into the pop charts, but in 1965 one did. “Eine Schwarzwaldfahrt” by the German musician Horst Jankowski was released in other countries as “A Walk in the Black Forest”. I have amended that title slightly for this post, returning the area to its German name of Schwarzwald. Unfortunately, work had…
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In the years that I have been in Switzerland, I have walked many trails and hiked over a substantial part of that country. But even though I live just a couple of kilometres from the German border, my hiking activities have only once crossed that border, when I was hiking the perimeter of Basel and…
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After my last posting here, I was reviewing the list of Jura Mountains summits. I realised that there was one of the major Swiss Jura summits that I had missed out on, the mountain of Le Noirmont. It is tucked away in a corner, between the Jura Höhenweg and the French border. And of course,…
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As 2024 came towards its end, it was once again time for the annual outing to Lugnaquilla. This time, as well as my sister Moira, we had Joff with us again. We reverted to the traditional route for our walk this year on 26th December, starting at Fenton’s Pub, and going via Camara Hill onto…
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