Category: Swiss walks

  • One Limitation of Electric Cars

    One Limitation of Electric Cars

    Reading Time: 2 minutes At the moment I am doing a favour that requires me to drive the electric car over a route that takes 25 percent of the car’s battery. This means that for every time I do the favour I have to charge the car for five hours. About the Drive The drive…

  • The Habit of Walking

    The Habit of Walking

    Reading Time: 4 minutes This morning I decided to go for a benchmark run for a new Garmin training plan. After I ran the required 5 minutes and four minutes of walking I continued with my walk. I had a route that I wanted to walk but because I saw people, and dogs on the…

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  • A Warm Octobre

    A Warm Octobre

    Reading Time: < 1 minute This morning I saw someone walking in shorts and a t-shirt and I saw more people in t-shirts. Switzerland is currently 8°c warmer than it should be at this time of year, and drier. The sun is shining and it rarely rains. The weather is stable and sunny, every single…

  • The Shoe Subscription – On Running

    The Shoe Subscription – On Running

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Yesterday I switched from the trail gloves I have been wearing since May for some new ones. The old shoes are still wearable, for indoor activities or for road trips but they have reached their limit. Just a Worn Sole The only thing wrong with these shoes is that the sole,…

  • The Age Old Hatred of Pedestrians

    The Age Old Hatred of Pedestrians

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Last night I was reading from a book, rather than from a kindle or audible book. As a result I had to keep the bedside light on. I also had to ensure that the light light the pages of the book. I was reading from the book “Beneath My Feet, Writers…

  • Paying for Facebook and Instagram

    Paying for Facebook and Instagram

    Reading Time: 2 minutes The Unappealing Thought of Paying for Facebook Facebook would like us, in Europe, to start paying to use Facebook, Instagram and Threads, eventually. I will never pay for any of these services because they do not provide us with anything of value. The day we begin to pay for Facebook and…

  • Learning to Slow Down with Electric Cars

    Learning to Slow Down with Electric Cars

    Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the weaknesses of Electric cars is that they take longer to refuel than a petrol burning car. One of the advantages of electric cars is that they take longer to refuel than a petrol burning car. For some people this is a deal breaker. They don’t want to be…

  • A Growing Fear of Wolves

    A Growing Fear of Wolves

    Reading Time: 2 minutes More Wolves In Switzerland they reintroduced wolves and they are thriving, to the point where a collection of 17 packs of wolves became a pack of 35 wolves. As the number of wolves increases so does the probability that humans will fall victim to wolves. They are thinking of reintroducing them…

  • On Potentially Removing Google Adsense from this Blog

    On Potentially Removing Google Adsense from this Blog

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently I have been toying with the idea of removing Google Ads from my site and adding a donation option instead. This escalated, when, yesterday I was seeing ads in the admin panel of my wordpress blog. Ads are disruptive enough for users, with full screen invasive ads that require you…