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  • 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…

  • Ingress Walks – A 12km path to Level 13

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesI stopped playing Ingress a few years ago because of how much time it requires. I have started going on Ingress walks again – a 12km path to level 13 in yesterday’s case, because I’m combining the daily walk that I would do anyway, with listening to podcasts and audiobooks, anyway. By…

  • Banning Traffic from Cornavin

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesAlthough this article is two years old La Tribune de Genève wrote again about it and it appeared in my Google Newsfeed. I am not opposed to making cities pedestrian because I love to walk more than I like buses, trains, or other forms of transport. I actually do like trains. When…

  • The Foggiest Idea

    The Foggiest Idea

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Foggiest idea, or a pun, after a walk this morning through Geneva on a foggy day. “The Jet D’eau will be off”, I thought. It was pumping out water at its usual rate but you’d find it hard to see. The grey/white fog, along with the white water, converged and…

  • 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…

  • On the Pleasure of Walking Without Stopping at a Road Crossing.

    On the Pleasure of Walking Without Stopping at a Road Crossing.

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter watching the video below this paragraph I want to speak on the pleasure of walking without stopping at a road crossing. In modern cities you can’t walk for more than a minute or two without having to stop at a road crossing, a traffic light or other feature. The result is…

  • 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…