Tag: walk
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Walking from Bex to Aigle
Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday I caught a train from Nyon to Bex without the need to change from one train to another. In the process I had an opportunity to re-acclimate myself to being surrounded by others, indoors, without a mask. Luckily the wagon wasn’t too crowded so I wasn’t overcome with the desire…
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The Lavaux Walk from Puidoux to Vevey
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today I met with a meetup group to walk through the Lavaux vineyards from Puidoux to Vevey and the experience was good. The logistics of buying a train ticket confused me but other than this the experience was good. I was able to catch a train from Nyon to Morges, change…
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A Walk by the Vallée De Joux
Reading Time: < 1 minute Every so often I get in a car to walk somewhere different. For two or three days we have been in the fog. Yesterday the fog was so thick that when I was driving I decided to slow down. I wanted to be able to stop in half the visible…
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A Walking Decline in the US Since 2019
Reading Time: 5 minutes According to streetlight data walking in the US has declined over the past three or four years. The decline was by up to thirty six percent from 2019-2022. The clearest reason for this is that 2019 and 2020 were walking honeymoon periods. By this I mean that for the duration of…
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A Walk at the Snow Line
Reading Time: < 1 minute The most striking thing about a winter with little to no snow is that there is no noise. Normally ski lifts clank, people talk and there is a lot of noise When there has been very little snow the ski lifts are turned off and the mountains are quiet. This…
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Crops
Reading Time: < 1 minute These are not ducks in a row. Tidy crops
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A Walk To The Chateau De Bossey
Reading Time: < 1 minute I walked to the Chateau De Bossey today. It’s an easy walk from one village to another and another after that.
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A Walk In The Shade
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sometimes we walk in the rain and the snow and we get soaked by the weather. Today I drank a litre in an hour and a half of walking. The air temperature is around 31c. I decided to walk from clump of trees to clump of trees. It’s possible. If…