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Category: Swiss walks

  • Day Four of Orca in Switzerland – Exploring the Trail Less Travelled

    Day Four of Orca in Switzerland – Exploring the Trail Less Travelled

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesToday is Day Four of Orca in Switzerland and I saw that the Canton in which I live has the most active cases of COVID19 so my motivation both to go to shops and to go for walks has taken a hit. At the same time I don’t know whether it’s COVID…

  • The 298 Km Walking and Running Challenge

    The 298 Km Walking and Running Challenge

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 298 Km walking and Running Challenge is now ten days old and I’ve managed to run or walk the required distance every day. Yesterday rather than walk I decided to run despite the rain. As a result, a pair of my hiking trousers are now nicely covered in mud. I walked…

  • The March Walking Challenge

    The March Walking Challenge

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m on the Apple Activities March Walking Challenge this month. The app has decided that I must walk or run 298 kilometres. It’s an average of 9.6 kilometres a day. This is both easy and challenging at the same time. Walking 10 kilometres takes about two hours. When I had a broken…

  • The Walk from Paquis to Decathlon/Mediamarkt

    The Walk from Paquis to Decathlon/Mediamarkt

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe walk from Paquis to Decathlon can be almost straight if you take the most direct route. You walk from anywhere in Paquis to the train station and from there you head up towards Balexert and from there you head along the cycle and walking paths that veer slightly to the…

  • 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.…

  • 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…