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  • A Walk To Los Molinos from Javea

    A Walk To Los Molinos from Javea

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThis walk takes you from the Port of Javea up to the lighthouse near San Antonio before continuing along the top towards Los Molinos. These are old grain mills. They used wind power to grind grain for several centuries before being taken out of action as modernisation arrived. The walk takes you…

  • StepsApp

    StepsApp

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWalking and taking steps could be seen as boring. It’s something we do every day, without thinking about it. At conferences we can easily take 20,000 steps a day, when we’re standing for the entire day, with barely any opportunities, or need to sit, except when eating or getting from A to…

  • Walking Into Heavy Rain

    Walking Into Heavy Rain

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes you end up walking into heavy rain. That’s what I did today. I looked at the weather and because it was meant to get better over the coming days I assumed that this evening it would get better. Instead, as I walked it started to rain a little more, and then…

  • Brushing Shoes and Mindfulness

    Brushing Shoes and Mindfulness

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesHave you considered brushing shoes and mindfulness? I ask because as I have played with the brush, to clear dirty mud off my shoes I have noticed that this is a time consuming task that always takes several minutes, if not half an hour to complete. People stigmatise leaving a muddy trail…

  • When Rain Doesn’t Show Up

    When Rain Doesn’t Show Up

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThey forecast rain and I looked forward to going for a walk and having clean shoes as shoes are washed by the rain keeping shows slick. The rain didn’t come so my shoes got muddy and I stood by the tap trying to get the mud to drain away from between the…

  • A Call for More Cycling and Walking Paths

    A Call for More Cycling and Walking Paths

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesI walk or cycle almost every day across five or six villages per walk, and more on bikes. During these walks and bike rides I see that there is a chronic lack of safe walking and cycling routes, if you want to go for any distance. Almost every village has five, six…

  • The Season of Muddy Shoes

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe are in a pandemic and I like to walk away from people. To do so I need to walk along muddy paths by the sides of roads, motorways and fields. In the process my shoes get covered in mud and I need to find ways of removing that mud. The…

  • A Weekend Walk During a Pandemic

    A Weekend Walk During a Pandemic

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went for my daily walk and I saw a shape. I thought, “That looks like a fox” and as I approached i had a doubt about it being a dog and I felt fear but I continued forward anyway. Eventually the fox noticed me, looked at me and then fled…

  • Stormy Skies Near Nyon

    Stormy Skies Near Nyon

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe weather was finally dynamic today. The storm warnings were flashing towards Hermance, on the French side of the lake. This gave a nice contrast between the yellow of the Colza fields and the dark threatening clouds behind. At moments I thought that rain would begin to fall but luckily the doppler…

  • Spoonley Wood Roman Villa and Mosaic

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRoman remains may be found and excavated but sometimes nature reclaims them. These ruins were discovered in 1882 but nature returned and hid them safely away again. Such tweets should inspire archeological departments, and film and TV or BA Media Studies to document the process of re-excavating these ruins, with photogrammetry…