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Those wellies are going to stand you in good stead, literally, Sabine. Thank goodness you have so much mud to make the investment pay for itself!The first nine k. for me. Bit of everything.
Brook, meadow, wood and some paved roads.
Wellies again.
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Overbroek - Egoven
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I was taking a sip from a drink when I read this. It nearly ended up sprayed onto my smartphone. We miss you on the Not Serious thread Kirkie.Thank goodness you have so much mud to make the investment pay for itself!
Ok, I gave you aView from inside gym walking on treadmill.
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Laughing with you, not at youView from inside gym walking on treadmill.
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Laughing with you, not at you
View from inside the corridor in the afternoon, walking on what feels like a treadmill sometimes.View from inside gym walking on treadmill
I was getting really confused with those pictures, Belgium, Dutch language, (yeah I know about the multilingualism) but French flag. So I use Google Maps to look up Kanne and get a bit more confused when I see Maastricht. Then I see that even the locals must get confused. Awfully weird border.
You've got really pretty country to walk in Sabine. When it's dry.
This flag got me confused. I was thinking you were near France.Belgian flag though?
Right. With the Dutch on the sign I figured you had to be closer to Nederland so I used Maps and saw both Kanne and Maastricht close to each other and on the same side of a river. Again I got confused until I saw the national border between them.Weird border but not French one.
The Wallonia/Flanders regional border (dotted line below) makes sense to me but the solid lined België/Nederland border looks like a border commission decided to settle matters by getting a blindfolded German drunk on beer, telling him to go for a walk and then dropping a border marker down everywhere he stopped to urinate. The national border shown below must have been when he was reasonably sober because it gets crazier elsewhere.Belgium with Wallonia and Flanders and then the Netherlands with Maastricht.
Are you sure you are on the right thread?BTW, is that orange pin labelled Bakkerij Smets an historical marker where the commission paused because they smelt a bakery?
Rick, I think your pictures have a nice variety of very interesting features of nature.It was very foggy this New Years Day morning but around noon it had turned to drizzle. We decided to go anyway instead of waiting for things to clear. It was one of our usual walks; in fact it was part of yesterday's walk because we were in search of a missing glove (that was found in our bathroom once we got home).
I've refrained from sending reports on this walk as you've seen so many pictures of it already and interesting pictures of woods are hard to take. The weather helped today though.
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Hey, how'd my pack get to your house?Started today on a 4 day thru hike in the Florida Keys . Island hopping on foot .
A really nice place. Peg and I often camp there. Not having as much insulation around us though there is a full month of no pilgrim presence down there between us before we show up.We just arrived a few days at our two month winter get-a-way on the Gulf.
Let me know if you will be in the area in January or February. It would be nice to meet up again...and meet Peg.A really nice place. Peg and I often camp there. Not having as much insulation around us though there is a full month of no pilgrim presence down there between us before we show up.
Give us some gator pics Chris.
It must be fairly new, as I pass that way often enough and it is the first time I have noticed it. With your back to Oscar, in Merrion Square, look left and follow your nose down to a junction, again look left. He will be waiting for you on your next trip! I just could not believe the price of that treat!@kirkie I loved visiting Dublin and Ireland as a whole. I guess this is a new Oscar Wilde seated? In 2017 I took lots of pics in the lovely park where there is the huge one of him near the corner.
Also the afternoon teas pic isn’t pilgrim pricing.. would be a nice treat though.
The back side of Diamond Head hill after way too many miles on an unseasonably muggy day? Nothing on the camino comes close to being as hard as that. You're set, @Kathy F.In December, I did the Honolulu Marathon. My opening prep for a Spring Camino.
Very colorful photo! You left your hallway today.I had to go downtown today, not really a 'walk,' but I walked. Here's a fruit vendor, with a beautiful display of oranges. (For some reason my phone's camera made them yellow, alas...)
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Yup. But I did my real walking there at night after I got back. Watching a smile of a moon setting through the branches of a big tree.You left your hallway today
Hi Esperanza@Annette london Where are your photos from? Spain?
And why notVery nice photos. Thanks for the details. I have long wanted to visit the Canaries, but they are a bit out of the way for folks like me on the US west coast. Maybe someday.
Wow, that is some list@Annette london
Hmm … I was thinking of heading to Morocco after my Camino this spring, but maybe the Canaries would be fun. Food for thought.
I have traveled a fair bit … Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, Cook Islands, Thailand, Fiji, South Africa, Rwanda, Uganda, Turkey, Jordan, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Ukraine, many trips through western Europe, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary before the wall came down, much of Canada and Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Argentina, Uruguay, lived in Alaska and Hawaii … and probably a bunch more that I can’t think of right now. So you could say that I have some experience tossing off bow lines.However, no matter how much I travel, the list of places I want to visit just keeps getting longer and longer. That’s my problem.
“Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move.”
-Tennyson
Kirkie,A fast trot down to the ferryport let me look again at some of the regular elements in my local walks, from another viewpoint. The ferry had just berthed as I arrived. The incinerator spews non stop, the two lighthouses face each other off, and Brendan Behan greets everyone coming out of the ferry terminal...
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Thank you. I do feel very fortunate, but I always prioritized travel and there have been some trade offs. I also see time as my enemy at this point, and the whole Covid situation has tried my patience. However, I also keep in mind that I am very fortunate to have such “problems” and I will still get some more traveling in somehow, someday.Wow, that is some list
Am seriously impressed
i would love to have visited even half of these places but work and other responsibilities got in the way!
we’ve hiked a lot but mostly in the Uk, France, Spain and Italy
now, time is our enemy but we’ll keep going for as long as we can
you are lucky to have visited so many wonderful places
Envious! I lived/worked in St. Thomas, VI for awhile, living on a sailboat and sailing "down islands" on weekends and holidays. To Bermuda, lived/worked in Horta (Azores) 11 years. Also to England, Spain, Morocco. To Brazil, Bulgaria, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Northern Ireland, Portugal (with Habitat for Humanity.) Lived in Saskatchewan/Canada part of a year. All over the USA as a kid. Not been to Mexico! In Tacoma, WA now and liking it better than the SE (North Carolina, Florida). 5 years here and guess it will probably be my last move. Feel so enriched by all the rambling... We humans are alike at core but display so much variety!!@Annette london
Hmm … I was thinking of heading to Morocco after my Camino this spring, but maybe the Canaries would be fun. Food for thought.
I have traveled a fair bit … Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, Cook Islands, Thailand, Fiji, South Africa, Rwanda, Uganda, Turkey, Jordan, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Ukraine, many trips through western Europe, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary before the wall came down, much of Canada and Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Argentina, Uruguay, lived in Alaska and Hawaii … and probably a bunch more that I can’t think of right now. So you could say that I have some experience tossing off bow lines.However, no matter how much I travel, the list of places I want to visit just keeps getting longer and longer. That’s my problem.
“Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move.”
-Tennyson
@Theatregal, you take the most fabulous photographs. Thank you.Overnight and morning rain have washed away much of the snow from this past Thursday. A wet walk along the river from my home today. I love the colour the rain brings out on the rocks along the dyke. A lone angler fishing for herring, a flock of Brewer's Blackbirds with one solitary Redwing Blackbird in the mix and an unintentional sculpture by a waterworks maintenance worker. Thankfully the dyke along this section of the river has held after yesterday's king tide and stormy winds. There was much damage in other parts of the lower mainland.
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Thank you @Icacos ! Hope all has been well for you in North Van within the last while with snow / extreme cold / high winds! The snow came after I'd finished working and I'm off for awhile so I've been enjoying it without having to drive too much!!@Theatregal, you take the most fabulous photographs. Thank you.
The gulls!Overnight and morning rain have washed away much of the snow from this past Thursday.
mspathVillar d'Arène-la Grave, France
photo taken January 11, 2018
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facing La Meije
Four years ago my husband and I walked into a mountain paradise in the southern Alps west of Grenoble/east of Briançon off route D1091. We stayed in an historic albergue; this was the view. ...Sadly now in 2022 we are only able to walk there in memory.
Annette london,mspath
wonderful photo
thank you for this reminder
this is a place like no other for us
Stayed in La Grave for days
walks everywhere
We did go up to La Meije…….in the cable car though!
we have always gone in summer to all the national parks in France….Vanoise, Ecrins,Mercantour,Pyrenees,Calanques, CevennesAnnette london,
Thanks for your kind comments.
Where you there in winter or summer?
Annette london,we have always gone in summer to all the national parks in France….Vanoise, Ecrins,Mercantour,Pyrenees,Calanques, Cevennes
We love France
Our surname is French …from the Huguenots way back
Daughter a French teacher ….and then she went and married an Italian!
Thats life!
You sound like one who knows the Way!!! More Ways than one!!!The back side of Diamond Head hill after way too many miles on an unseasonably muggy day? Nothing on the camino comes close to being as hard as that. You're set, @Kathy F.
Buen camino!
Eight times on marathon day, and I lose track of how many training runs and shorter races. Another body, another life. But it feels like yesterday.You sound like one who knows the Way!!! More Ways than one!!!
The Irish Yeast Co. - I don’t suppose anyone cares enough to save the trim on top of that door on the right?Different countries, so, unlikely to have been the same heron...
Was the one I saw aiming for the little mallard duckling?
Mr Kavanagh said nothing...
And then - former glory. The Irish Yeast Company is finally on its way to the breakdown yard...
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I am not catching your point. I can be dim, sometimes!The Irish Yeast Co. - I don’t suppose anyone cares enough to save the trip on top of that door on the right?
Beautiful light, @kirkie!Anyway, it was a glorious day, and made for a delightful walk home.
No, you are not dim. I meant to say ‘trim,’ the simple wood trim on top of the door to what looks to be the adjacent property. I am a real softie when it comes to old woodwork, and this piece is beautiful in its simplicity … and I’m guessing some craftsperson was very proud of it at some point.I am not catching your point. I can be dim, sometimes!
An internet search will give you the history of the company. As with everything and everyone that bites the dust, a certain pathos. Yet, tomorrow needs that today passes... I actually like that. Today passes. Not me. I will not pass. I will die.
I took this picture on a walk last October on an old logging road. It tells about a Canadian's work at an American logging camp. Not a lumberjack though; they got paid a bit better.The citation at the memorial says the following:-
Stover Park - the Canadian Forestry Corps arrived in 1916 - the 250 Canadians were skilled foresters and sawyers, "
Wow! And you're really well along, if you started at Cape Reinga.Greetings from along the Te Araroa Trail, NZ (southbound)
I don't know.Wow @lovingkindness ! From France to Aotearoa (NZ ) .
Staying long?
I took this picture on a walk last October on an old logging road. It tells about a Canadian's work at an American logging camp. Not a lumberjack though; they got paid a bit better.
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Sabine, I'm only a few months late. Be kind.
I started in Palmerston North... I am carrying camping gear plus kilos of food to last many days at a time. I haven't carried a backpack since 2013 when I purchased a Mountainsmith lumbar pack. Eight years of walking,shoulders free, going ultra lite. It isn' possible to walk lite in the Tararua Ranges. One must carry clothing for 3 seasons and many days food. I am suffering with the weight of it all. I am going at a snails pace compared to the trails I,ve walked in Europe...Wow! And you're really well along, if you started at Cape Reinga.
And yeah. The Tararuas look so benignly innocent from the flats near Levin.
Not.
Gorgeous, @lovingkindness, thank you.
When I lived in Honolulu, I used to be a race volunteer for the Honolulu Marathon. Maybe I handed you a cup of water long ago.Eight times on marathon day, and I lose track of how many training runs and shorter races. Another body, another life. But it feels like yesterday.
Ultreia and buen camino!
Wow, walking in the fog looks pretty amazong in the pictures. And the birds, wow, what a walk!A walk along the Ladner marshes and forest paths of Ladner Harbour Park. The fog was coming in as I started and was thick as I was leaving, obscuring a couple of Bald Eagles high above their nest. Saw a beautiful Rough-legged Hawk preening. The red building is the Harbour Master's house and office.
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