Good vibes : local walks

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• Jul 16, 2012

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I detect some animosity lately regarding some issues on this forum.
So I thought : why not start a topic about the lovely walks one can walk locally? This would give us the chance to learn something about other regions / country and nature... Like I said, only a thought...

I will start with some images from my local walks in south of the province Limburg ( Belgium ).

 

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• Jul 16, 2012

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Winter...

 

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• Jul 16, 2012

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Contemplation...

 

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• Jul 16, 2012

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Here is a picture of a stream where we hiked and camped this past weekend in East Tennessee.

 

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• Jul 16, 2012

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Brilliant! Bit wilder than here...

 

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• Jul 16, 2012

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Not so wild of photo.

Savage Gulf wilderness

 

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• Jul 16, 2012

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Meadow and very very tame sheep... :wink:

 

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• Jul 16, 2012

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"Meadow and very, very tame children".

This was on a training walk with the kids a couple of miles from my home in Hampshire.

 

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• Jul 16, 2012

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Salisbury to Stonehenge, 5 hours. 15/07/2012

 

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• Jul 16, 2012

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• Jul 16, 2012

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• Jul 16, 2012

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• Jul 16, 2012

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Miguel : very nice picture. Lovingkindness : as ever your pictures make me dream away...( if not only for the scones )...

A city stroll in beautiful Gent.

 

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• Jul 16, 2012

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Ah, Ghent. I haven't been there but I did stay in Brugge a few years ago and left covered in flea bites and a rash!

 

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• Jul 16, 2012

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ouch not good. You will love Gent, less touristy than Bruges. Here , a good waffle from tearoom Max in Gent, to make up for the fleas from Bruges...

 

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• Jul 16, 2012

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yum yum. I can smell it all the way over here....

 

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• Jul 17, 2012

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Making it easy for the walkers : part of track with wooden deck....

 

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• Jul 17, 2012

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Cheers Ping! Smiles are still for free...

 

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• Jul 18, 2012

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My jogging track. Neighbours are a bit odd.

 

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• Jul 18, 2012

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Love them

On a post-Camino walk over our old training ground on the Haldon Hills we saw these two little lizards 'holding hands'.



Then on a train in Wales (not the FEVE),



we could see Pen Y Fan (pronounced Pen i Van) 886mts above sea level.
We climbed it a couple of days later. More folk than we saw recently on the Camino and harder than Buspol. :!:

 

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• Jul 18, 2012

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Two hours to ascend and an hour and a half descent on the 'easy side'. The army use the circular route for training.

 

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• Jul 18, 2012

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Brilliant! Keep on posting. Tia, the landscapes are so beautiful. So jealous. We will never have these immense open spaces in our country... . :cry:

 

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• Jul 21, 2012

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Beautiful pictures!

 

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• Jul 21, 2012

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Got some company on yesterday's walk....

 

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• Jul 21, 2012

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And what better way to treat oneself after the walk : a very good Trappist beer, a Chimay.

 

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• Jul 29, 2012

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Great thread Sabine. I'm home now, and back at work... so I am just grabbing some weekend time to walk on the local tracks on the edge my city at present. It's winter back here, and the last two weekends we've had frosts then blue skies. Here are a couple of shots from my walk this morning.
Margaret

 

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Oceanroc7

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• Jul 29, 2012

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What joy to read about local walks as I plan my spell on the Camino (setting off for part of the Camino de la Plata in a week. Yikes!!!) I love to think of people who do not know England exploring our hills and dales as I book accommodation in Finisterra, with no real idea of the culture there!

I am a school teacher at the Stonehenge School in Wiltshire and love local forays to the New Forest and roundabouts. Too many people do not appreciate the beauty on their doorsteps. Although perhaps I am lucky to have chosen a doorstep with much nearby beauty.

Anyway, I am inspired by this thread and will continue to seek both beauty and adventure, near and
far.

 

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• Jul 30, 2012

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Margaret, thanks for sharing! Very beautiful.

Oceanroc : all the best for your upcoming Camino. Keep us posted.

 

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• Jul 30, 2012

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Local pilgrim's Cross close to the Loreto hermitage/ chapel.

 

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• Jul 31, 2012

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Great idea Sabine and fantastic pictures! I know that we have planned to walk together in August but I am not so sure that we will be able to MOVE if we indulge in all those lovely desserts and beer!!!

Just a week back but went out on Sunday for a 2 1/2 hour walk in the dunes. No we don't have the wide open expanses as in Spain but the dunes and beach here in Zuid-Holland are very special:

 

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• Jul 31, 2012

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Wow, some amazing pictures! Of course I am quite taken by the scones and tea, and waffle pics, but all the landscape ones are just stunning. Thanks for sharing! Hubby and I have been walking in a local forest, where there are usually koalas and kangaroos, must remember to take my camera next time.

 

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• Sep 2, 2012

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Via Monastica in Belgium

 

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• Sep 2, 2012

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Beware of Oak Processionary

 

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• Sep 2, 2012

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Tranendreef / Lane of Tears = Nature, local art and alternative accomodation all in one.
http://www.z33.be/en/pit/dre-wapenaar-tranendreef

 

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• Sep 3, 2012

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Thanks Sabine. We decided that we would start a new blog with some of our local walks, especially as 'training' would get a bit repetitive. So here is the link for anyone interested. http://peripatio.blogspot.co.uk/
We have some lovely places to walk in the UK and are much blessed by living in a rural area.

On a light note:- We were invited to visit the farm where the angora goats ('mohairs') are kept which provide our socks. Terry's hands pulling up his socks are on their publicity, but this is a photo I took.

 

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• Oct 7, 2012

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Tia, thank you for the link! Also very lovely picture.