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  • City Cat Sitting.

    City Cat Sitting.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the first time in my life I am cat sitting. I’m used to village cats and this is a city cat so I don’t know how much time I need to spend with the cat, how much I need to play and more. When I look after toddlers I know…

  • A Ten Kilometre Sunday Ingress Walk

    A Ten Kilometre Sunday Ingress Walk

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI was going to take the scooter but it was stuck by three SUVs so I had no option but to lazily give up and go on a 10 kilometre Sunday Ingress walk. I couldn’t be bothered running up to the second floor, getting the car keys, moving the car, getting the…

  • An Ingress Photo Walk Before The Rain

    An Ingress Photo Walk Before The Rain

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went for an Ingress Photo Walk before the rain and I eventually did have to go home because the phone was starting to get wet and there was no urgency to continue playing the game and walking. I did spot a few things that were slightly out of the ordinary.…

  • Three Lanes Are Better Than Two

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThree lanes are always better than two but environmentalists are against expanding from two lanes to three lanes because they say that having three lanes will promote the use of the car. I believe that this is a flawed argument. The A1 motorway between Geneva and Lausanne is often congested because when…

  • A walk Above the Woods

    A walk Above the Woods

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes a walk above the woods is easy. I don’t mean walking while flying hanging from a parapente. I mean walking at an altitude where there are fewer trees. The walk from the transmission mast of La Bariellette to La Dôle is an easy walk that I have done many times. Sometimes…

  • Half a Million Steps in July

    Half a Million Steps in July

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIn July this year I took half a million steps as I was banned from driving. I’m using that phrase for comedic effect. As I had one arm in a sling driving was out of the question for a few weeks and then it was out of the question because my tendons…

  • The Phone Box library Walk

    The Phone Box library Walk

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re looking for a reason to walk from one village to another the practise of using old phone boxes as free libraries are common in Switzerland. This means that if you’re shopping around for books in Switzerland you can either go to the shops and buy them with the car or…

  • A forest walk by Chavannes Centre

    A forest walk by Chavannes Centre

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I cycle towards Geneva i often pass by a forest near Chavannes centre. Usually I only skirt the exterior of the forest but I have twice passed through it on a bike on my way back from Geneva. Yesterday I drove the scooter to Chavannes centre and parked it where scooters…

  • Climbing to La Barillette

    Climbing to La Barillette

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesThe first time I climbed up to La Barillette on a bike it took me two and a half hours. This time it took one hour and sixteen minutes. I was going so slowly that I had to work to keep the bike upright. Since then I have gone from a mountain…

  • La Via Ferrata Farinet

    La Via Ferrata Farinet

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a week or two in April the weather was nice but since then the weather has been bad. We had new snow, high winds and rain. Yesterday rain was announced yet again for parts of Switzerland but luckily only clouds were announced for Saillon where the Via Farinetta is. I expected…