Category: travel
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Approaching the Five Kilometre Mark
Reading Time: 2 minutesI am approaching the five kilometre mark now. I am getting close to being able to run five kilometres in a row once again. It is paradoxical that I find running hard, compared to walking and cycling. I was able to run up to 13 kilometres before. Now I’m aiming for half,…
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Nyon In Spring
Reading Time: 2 minutesDue to the pandemic I almost never go to Nyon. If I do I often wear a mask and avoid walking around too much. Most people think the pandemic is over. I see, from the data, that it is not, and I want to stay true to previous ethics and morality. I…
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One Hundred Day of 10,000 Steps
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday marks 100 days in a row of walking 10,000 steps a day. It helps that we’re in winter than in summer because my step streaks are broken when I go for bike rides. Step counters don’t count pedalling as steps, so it’s easy to lose a streak. I could pretend that…
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Thoughts on Large Watch Screens
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I played with an Apple Watch Ultra in a shopping centre and two thoughts came to mind. The first is that this is finally a calculator watch that is big enough for an adult to use. This is meant more as a joke than as a serious comment. The second thought…
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Running From Village to Village
Reading Time: 2 minutesNormally I walk from village to village. My walks can take me through four to six villages per walk. I walk from village to village in part because I live in the middle of a landscape where walking from village to village is easy. I had doubts about today’s run because I…
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A Cupboard Filled With Books
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I went for one of my usual one and three quarter hour walks and when I came into one village I noticed a green cupboard so I opened it and looked inside. From the quote on the front you would guess that it has something to do with books but I…
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Catkins in January
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUntil today I didn’t know what catkins were because I never looked them up. “A catkin or ament is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster (a spike), with inconspicuous or no petals…” according to Wikipedia. They are out at the moment and I know this is unusual because a few days ago I saw an article about how it was…