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Just this morning I learned that there is an alternative pronunciation to the name Sabine. In English it rhymes with queen, in French it ends in an ah sound. I believe your native language is Flemish? So which pronunciation do you use?
With the bien pronounced like the Spanish word?I prefer Sabien
With the bien pronounced like the Spanish word?
Sabine,40k ebike drive.
Sabine,
Your "reward" looks very tasty for a hot day; here on the Marne the champagne vendange has just begun. The grape harvest is a month earlier than usual due to the continual heat. 32 C. today.
Over the years we walked the 8 peaks , yes we included the Vaalserberg.A challenge for Low Country peak baggers.
‘It definitely isn’t flat’: Netherlands mountain trail proves an unlikely success
No need for tourists to bring ropes on this seven-peak hike in the Low Countrieswww.theguardian.com
A challenge for Low Country peak baggers.
‘It definitely isn’t flat’: Netherlands mountain trail proves an unlikely success
No need for tourists to bring ropes on this seven-peak hike in the Low Countrieswww.theguardian.com
It is a bit late in the day for me to take this in, but thank you for posting. If only I had appreciated knowledge and learning more when I was younger!Only 7k from Vaalserberg is Moresnet.
Talking about weird borders and geography.
So, you're loving your e-bike Sabine? I'm seriously considering it for next spring and know nothing about them!
Hi there, @SabinePI guess the more Anglo Saxon / Germanic pronunciation although living so close to the languageborder ( and local dialect) I hear the French version too.
I prefer Sabien though above Sabine , especially seeing our local dialect has an awful " i"....
You're welcome....@lovingkindness : thank you for the interesting info. I never knew...
Did that 1997 ... gosh how time flies ...A final long walk with an 8kg back back yesterday. The pack contained almost everything I will carry on the Camino Frances starting STJPDP on 21st Sept.
We walked the first stage of the West Highland Way in Scotland, Milngavie to Drymen (an oxymoron in Scotland) and return, 26 miles all in. 10.5 hours including an hour for lunch and a drink. The walk was fine, slight tenderness in the sole of my heel. Something to watch out for. We walk from Urdaniz to Uterga on day 3.
I'm 63, it's on my doorstep and that was my first time walking a section of it. It was the distance and ease of transport that attracted me to do it. No previous inclination. However, it's on my list now.Did that 1997 ... gosh how time flies ...
An oxymoron, why is that?A final long walk with an 8kg back pack yesterday. The pack contained almost everything I will carry on the Camino Frances starting STJPDP on 21st Sept.
We walked the first stage of the West Highland Way in Scotland, Milngavie to Drymen (an oxymoron in Scotland) and return, 26 miles all in. 10.5 hours including an hour for lunch and a drink. The walk was fine, slight tenderness in the sole of my heel. Something to watch out for. We walk from Urdaniz to Uterga on day 3.
It is well known that Scottish men like a drink. If a place has no bars or pubs it is called ”dry”.An oxymoron, why is that?
You know what? Scenery, long remembered, was lit up for me in your photos. Thank you. It was the background to my growing up. Funny how we are really formed by what surrounds us. And great you got to explain a context for oxymoron!It is well known that Scottish men like a drink. If a place has no bars or pubs it is called ”dry”.
Not that Drymen doesn’t have hotels and pubs.
His song, “Bring Me Two Pina Coladas,” is about a Camino of a different sort.Well my local walk saw me passing probably 90% of the attendees at a Garth Brooks concert, all sporting hats. Then I saw this forlorn hat in the middle of the road. Must be a thing to wear these hats to his concerts.
I confess happily to knowing only that Garth Brooks exists, he plays music, and has been playing for three nights in Dublin. I only really heard of him very recently, in the context of some argument over the venue...
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I remember that stretch of the SWCP pretty well. NiceA walk on the SW coast path/Jurassic coast
very undulating and we had forgotten our walking poles!
a few yellow arrows too
now where have I seen those before?
Lots of blackberries so it was lunch Al Fresco
over Golden Cap, the highest point on the southern coast
15 km one way so got the bus back where we met 2 people from Galicia walking the SW coast path….keen Camino walkers too!View attachment 132723View attachment 132724View attachment 132725View attachment 132726View attachment 132727View attachment 132728View attachment 132729View attachment 132730View attachment 132731View attachment 132732
Hi there, @TheatregalA morning walk along the paths of one of my favourite places to see the changing of the seasons. The Maplewood Mudflats / Wild Bird Trust / Conservation area in North Vancouver. The area is also the unceded traditional lands and territory of the indigenous peoples of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation.
The path begins alongside a sculptural installation: "Shangri-la to Shangri-la" by artist Ken Lum. The shacks are scale model representations of squatter's cabins that lined the intertidal zone - Maplewood Mudflats - on the north shore of Burrard Inlet from the early twentieth century. Long an alternative living place, the last residents were evicted and the cabins burned down in the early 1970's. The sculpture on the left represents the cabin that the writer Malcolm Lowry lived in during the 1940's while he was writing "Under the Volcano". The actual location of his cabin was further west along Burrard Inlet.
Cloudy skies when I arrived and it soon brightened up though the sun was filtered by smoke from wildfires in different areas of the province.
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Derailing the thread a bit...I´ve just downloaded Lowry´s novel. I´m not sure how far I´ll get with it but I´ll give it a go.
I am piggybacking on the link! I have to do something else, but when I have finished, I will sit down to enjoy the story! Tanx!Derailing the thread a bit...
Hi @lovingkindness - here's a story Lowry wrote (The Forest Path to the Spring) about his time living in the cabin on the mudflats at the edge of the forest in the 1940's. He calls the community of squatter's shacks "Eridanus", a name drawn from the river in Virgil’s Aeneid which waters the Elysian Fields of the Earthly Paradise.
The forest path to the spring | Maclean's | July 15, 1961
One of the great novelists of our time, the late Malcolm Lowry, took a shanty on the B. C. coast for a honeymoon and never really left. This is the story of that shadowed idyllarchive.macleans.ca
The mud must have looked good this time.We finally got some much needed rain.
The mud must have looked good this time.
On the previous page in this thread I wrote
"I make fun of Sabine's mud but in the [White Mountains] we get rocks, roots, ruts, washouts and windfalls." We actually call them blowdowns but that would ruin the rhythm.
We went back up to New Hampshire for a long weekend and more mountain hikes. After reaching a small peak I started taking some pictures of the trail conditions on the way down to show the rocks, roots, etc. Peg really hates going down on the rock slabs. Usually she sits and does a slow slide.
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Yep, better safe than sorry. Better to semi-ruin a pair of hiking pants than possibly twisting an ankle or breaking an ankle. Good for Peg...she no dummy.Peg really hates going down on the rock slabs. Usually she sits and does a slow slide.
Hi Annette, are you still walking stretches of the SW Coast? I have ordered the guide book in the past, but due to the possibility of inclement weather, defaulted to the Cotswold Way and had better weather "back in the day".From Abbotsbur, up to the South Dorset Ridgeway path
Beautiful scenery from the start with a view of the coast
Through fields, narrow paths and forests we reached the Hardy monument
Down to Portersham village for coffee then caught the open top Jurassic cruiser bus to West Bay, a popular place for TV shoots
The series” Broadchurch” was made there a few years ago
Theres an American version based on the English series but I can’t remember the name
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I know nothing of either of those tv shows, but sure you are correct...how can we imitate the original and do a better jobGorgous @Annette london !
Yup, the USA version is called Gracepoint and is not to be compared with the excellent Broadchurch!
Hi ChrisHi Annette, are you still walking stretches of the SW Coast? I have ordered the guide book in the past, but due to the possibility of inclement weather, defaulted to the Cotswold Way and had better weather "back in the day".
Nice camo on that sheep.I leave for SJPP Oct 18th. Need to get some long walks in before then. Today's was long (13 miles), with small elevation gain (600 ft) and no rocks/technical hiking. Waterton Canyon, south of Denver Colorado. Bonus points if you spot the bighorn sheep on the cliff.
Group question - next week's goal is 13 miles with a 2000 ft EG, which I hope to do a few times before leaving. Is that enough to handle the Napoleon route, or do I need to find a way to build in more elevation gain? TIA!
Probably. I found way back when I ran that I could finish a race about three times longer than my training. But do note that the Napoleon is about 25 km and 1,300 meters elevation gain. That's about 15 miles and 4,300 feet.Group question - next week's goal is 13 miles with a 2000 ft EG, which I hope to do a few times before leaving. Is that enough to handle the Napoleon route
How wonderful. I've wanted for a long time to backpack there. We haved backpacked anywhere for five years. That last time though there was a bull moose across the lake.So, I disappeared for a couple of weeks because we went backpacking to Isle Royale on Lake Superior National Park.
You should visit! It's so special and unique, very unlike other National Parks. There are no bears, only moose, wolves, red fox, and other small creatures;-) The best time to go - in MHO, is August because the weather is more reliable, there are less - or no bugs, and the thimbleberries are everywhere for the picking!How wonderful. I've wanted for a long time to backpack there. We haved backpacked anywhere for five years. That last time though there was a bull moose across the lake.
Many years ago, pre-Peg, on a trail on another backpack a bull moose and I had a nose-to-nose encounter. After a stalemate where neither of us moved he conceded that I, as the uphill walker, had the right-of-way and he turned off the trail and disappeared into the forest.
Anyway, moving on to a current local walk, we took one of our usual short ones the other day. I turned on the Wikiloc app to measure the distance but then decided to also add pictures for waypoints and upload it to the cloud. There's nothing special in them except you can see that autumn colors are coming to New England.
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This one is a tiny bit special. It shows part of a vernal pool taken from a causeway.
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Beautiful seaside and some interesting sculpture!Weekend at Belgian seaside town Ostend
Thanks for the jolt to my memory. In April we were in the area. Most of the time was spent on the Alabama coast but on the Florida panhandle is Eglin Air Force Base which has several campgrounds. We stayed at an undeveloped one.A few days on the Florida panhandle coast.
Best wishes. But is it fair toNot a spectacular walk today, but I went to my newly acquired cabin at the edge of the wilderness
Well, they are sled dogs, so they support quite a lot and increase the walking speed considerably. But still I myself need to use my own legs ... and actually put some effort into being the brake.Best wishes. But is it fair to say to post here when the only "walking" is done by your dogs?
Beautiful, Martin.Hello, everyone! Greetings from Latvia!This where I do my walks here! Sometime they are shorter, sometimes longer, but and I am trying to walk each week! Keep moving - that's my logo!
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