Nach einer weiteren Prsenzwoche in meinem derzeitigen langfristigen Projekt in Stuttgart, bin ich gestern wieder nach Hause zu geplant drei Wochen Home Office in Mnchen gefahren und habe dabei einen Abstecher zum Bodensee gemacht. Dort habe ich zwei UNESCO Welterbe Sttten besucht: die Klosterinsel Reichenau und die Pfahlbauten in Unteruhldingen. Also auf Reichenau - erreichbar ber eine Art Damm w Read on...
Sunday, 17 July 2022, Fort William to Spean Bridge. Day 1 on the Great Glen Way which entails 77 miles to Inverness. Today 12.5 miles, 260 feet elevation gain 5 hours 52 minutes walking. Our two rest days in Fort William were most relaxing. The lovely ladies; Dora, Jean and Margareta at the Myrtle Bank Guest House B&B were the of hospitality, great food, and wonderful friendliness. Fort William i Read on...
Covid boredom brought four friends together where I was staying at Cloud9, to do a themed cooking night at weekends. All of us have boats in the shipyard and with the struggles getting staff though this time means were all over our time! Doni from Sweden, Frances from Rotuma in Fiji, Brent from New Zealand and moi from Scotland. This was by far the best out of all of them, Brent cooked New Zealan Read on...
Today was the day of hiking. Im not sure what we were thinking when we booked a hiking tour in the morning and a walking tour in the afternoon, but the result was we were able to see a lot of Wurzburg and get in a lot of steps! Wurzburg is a city of about 125,000 people located in Germanys Bavaria region. It is mostly known for its Baroque architecture and Franconian wine. 90 percent of the city w Read on...
We had tickets to Les Mis for tonight and we didnt want to miss this one theater that we still had reservations for. The theater was set to start at 7 pm so we did have the day to play. Zaya wanted to see the Big Ben and that seemed a good place to start. We went by the London Eye and decided that we could do that if we could finish up the other sites. We walked to Big Ben but it was covered with Read on...
We woke up and opened the curtains to find sunshine. Maximum temperature will be around 30 degrees. You beauty ! I chose a simple continental breakfast with toast with Philadelphia cream cheese, a strawberry yoghurt, corn flakes and coffee (cant have cooked breakfast every day or we all know what happens then ?). Only a short 1 minute drive to Chief Tsosies depot for the Upper Antelope Slot Canyo Read on...
Vor einer Woche am Freitag hatte ich zuhause in Mnchen Home Office und bin am spten Nachmittag nach Hallstatt gefahren. Eigentlich hatte ich diesen Sommer eine mehrwchige Reise nach Japan geplant und htte vorher das 1. in Hallstatt verbracht, aber durch Corona gab es eben nderungen. An diesem Anreisetag gab es drei Herausforderungen. Die erste war die Grenze. Die war offen. Die zweite war der Par Read on...
Today I am an invalid. My thighs are stiff as a board. I know I only walked 10km yesterday but I reckon the 2km of continual twitching quadriceps added a virtual 8km of extra effort to my legs. At least, it feels that way. Dwayne, on the other hand, has pulled up I guess those HIIT sessions with the millions of squats havent really worked for me! It started raining heavily overnight and was stil Read on...
The tragedy of life is not in our failure, but rather in not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. – Benjamin E. Mays The last blog was posted on 9th October which is almost a month ago. What does this signal? Boredom, loss of interest or a sense that this little pesky virus is no longer ne Read on...
Tout un programme me direz vous... mais tout voyage pour nous est dj un programme... et je voudrais ici reprendre un des derniers paragraphes du premier blog, car il rsume un peu tout ce que nous avons fait hier et ajourdhui... en annonant un petit peu la suite pour demain, dimanche midi... La Dombes est surnomm le pays aux 1000 tangs. En effet, dans ces paysages sauvages, leau est prsente o que Read on...