Tag: walking

  • The Arches

    The Arches

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you are looking for a sport easy walk with a little scrambling, walk to the rock arches. Two holes have been eroded into the rock providing two natural arches. You can walk up to both arches but it’s better to go on a quiet day. This place is not a good…

  • Entering Twenty One Degree Water

    Entering Twenty One Degree Water

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor most people over 20 degrees air temperature and twenty one degree water is okay. I struggle. I like water to be warm. I like to be warm before I go in. I like to know that when I get out I will still be warm. Today with a little effort…

  • Another Walk By The Mediterranean.

    Another Walk By The Mediterranean.

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne treat of being in Spain is that some people do wear masks when walking outdoors. You are normal for wearing a mask. In Switzerland you are looked at as if you are eccentric or absurd. It is nice not to be looked at as a curiousity. It is nice to…

  • JSON-LD and a Walk

    JSON-LD and a Walk

    Reading Time: 2 minutesA conventional tech blogger would usually just write about JSON-LD and completely ignore the fact that they went on a walk. I like to combine the two. JSON-LD, short for JSON Linked Document is an agreement for certain data fields to be used for specific purposes. The idea is to standardise terms…

  • Yet Another Sunny Day

    Yet Another Sunny Day

    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I looked at two of the masks I used over summer and they are both bleached by the sun. So is my hat. I normally expect things in Spain to be sun bleached, not Switzerland. The reason is simple. First, it never ever rains, and even clouds are rare today, and…

  • Of Blue Skies and Autumn Leaves

    Of Blue Skies and Autumn Leaves

    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday we might as well speak of blue skies and autumn leaves because that is what we’re facing. The Septemper/Autumn grey clouds, fog, and cold are not here yet. Instead we have warm sunny days. The habit of walking one and a half hours a day is perfectly safe, with such a…

  • Of Beets, Columns of Black Smoke and Finished Books

    Of Beets, Columns of Black Smoke and Finished Books

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you walk around at the moment you see that they have cut corn, sunflowers and beet. You also see that there are piles of beet in fields, queues of tractors waiting to send them on a train journey and more. Agriculture is busy at the moment. This morning I heard quite…

  • With A view of the Mont Blanc

    With A view of the Mont Blanc

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m afraid to open the veluxes because of the threat of finding yet another large spider. I don’t mind having to dispose of it, but I hate the idea of having one walking around without me knowing. A great alternative to open windows is to go for your daily walk. You’re far…

  • Broken Stones, Good Weather and Autumn

    Broken Stones, Good Weather and Autumn

    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday as I looked at the ground I saw broken stones. The one in the image below is especially beautiful. I don’t know why there were more broken stones than usual. It seems that the conditions were right to bring the stones to the surface and for the farmers’ machinery to break…

  • A River Runs Dry, Wood builds a Natural Dam and Corn Grows Eratically.

    A River Runs Dry, Wood builds a Natural Dam and Corn Grows Eratically.

    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen rain becomes a treat you get used to looking at rivers that are running drier and drier with every passing day. The river pictured below is so low that you see the river bed in many parts. It’s a meter or more below it’s usual level. Imagine being a weather forecaster…