The prospect of a railway line from the city of Cork to the town of Youghal (pronounced Yawl) was first proposed in the early 1850s. For some years, there was little progress, but the line as far as Midleton was opened in November 1859, followed by the remainder of the route to Youghal a few…
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Through most of September, I was out of Switzerland, and unable to get back t following Suvorov’s route. But with the coming of October, I was back in Switzerland and anxious to get back to following Suvorov’s route. At the end of September 1799, Suvorov was in Altdorf. But the French had confiscated all the…
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A few days later, I was back on the trail again. The train brought me to Göschenen early in the morning. I stepped off the train and started walking immediately, heading northwards and down the valley. I suspect that the route taken by Suvorov follows closely to the road, but the trail is very much…
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Following my diversions to the Niesen and the Schilthorn summits, I got back to my plans for walking Swiss trails in August. My planned third trail for 2024 was the Via Suvorov. Before going on to talk about the trail itself, it is important to take a look at the background. Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov was…
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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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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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After I arrived in Crans, work commitments took me away from hiking for a while. That left me running up against my target deadline of completion before the end of the year. When a chance to go back on the trail did come up, I watched the weather anxiously. It looked like there would be…
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