Category: travel

  • Nervous Energy

    Nervous Energy

    Reading Time: 2 minutes I don’t know whether I’m nervous or anxious about driving from 11-13 hours almost non stop tomorrow. In the past I have driven from Switzerland to Spain, without stopping. In the past we had to stop to refuel but not anymore, not with modern cars. We have to stop for toilet…

  • Walking Into Heavy Rain

    Walking Into Heavy Rain

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes you end up walking into heavy rain. That’s what I did today. I looked at the weather and because it was meant to get better over the coming days I assumed that this evening it would get better. Instead, as I walked it started to rain a little more, and…

  • The Casio GBD-200-1

    Reading Time: 3 minutes The Casio GBD-200-1 and similar watches is a watch that counts steps and tracks runs. It communicates with the Casio Move app to provide you with a log of your steps, runs and progress. From what I gather it uses the phone to plot the GPS points of your run. No…

  • Brushing Shoes and Mindfulness

    Brushing Shoes and Mindfulness

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you considered brushing shoes and mindfulness? I ask because as I have played with the brush, to clear dirty mud off my shoes I have noticed that this is a time consuming task that always takes several minutes, if not half an hour to complete. People stigmatise leaving a muddy…

  • One Year With The Garmin Instinct Solar

    One Year With The Garmin Instinct Solar

    Reading Time: 5 minutes I bought the Garmin Instinct Solar because I was interested to see how the Solar option works. As with most watches the solar panels take several hours to recharge the watch, even during summer heatwaves. The Solar part is great, if you’re in Spain and leave your watch to recharge in…

  • A Walk In The Snow

    A Walk In The Snow

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Today I went for a walk in the snow. It wasn’t snowing and I wasn’t in a blizzard but there was snow on the ground. I like when it snows because the landscape looks different. It reminds us of a different age, of old post cards, and a time when the…

  • When Rain Doesn’t Show Up

    When Rain Doesn’t Show Up

    Reading Time: 2 minutes They forecast rain and I looked forward to going for a walk and having clean shoes as shoes are washed by the rain keeping shows slick. The rain didn’t come so my shoes got muddy and I stood by the tap trying to get the mud to drain away from between…

  • A Call for More Cycling and Walking Paths

    A Call for More Cycling and Walking Paths

    Reading Time: 3 minutes I walk or cycle almost every day across five or six villages per walk, and more on bikes. During these walks and bike rides I see that there is a chronic lack of safe walking and cycling routes, if you want to go for any distance. Almost every village has five,…

  • Moving Sugar Beet

    Reading Time: 2 minutes For a few weeks you see piles of sugar beet at one end, or another of fields. They stay that way for a while, until it rains for some reason. When it rains those piles of beet are loaded into hundreds of tractor trailer loads and transported to the train yard.…

  • The Season of Muddy Shoes

    Reading Time: < 1 minute We are in a pandemic and I like to walk away from people. To do so I need to walk along muddy paths by the sides of roads, motorways and fields. In the process my shoes get covered in mud and I need to find ways of removing that mud.…