heritage / hiking / miscellany / railway / running
Switzerland 2024
by Eight nights staying in Wengen, half just Stephen, half with Mark too, enjoying hiking, glorious scenery and trains
Author: Stephen
heritage / miscellany / railway / running / waterways
Germany and Denmark 2024
Visits to Halle (for parkrun and schnitzel), Nordhausen for the Harz railway to the Brocken, Hamburg for Miniatur Wunderland plus Chocoversum, boat trip, running and a bus tour, Lübeck for marzipan and a swim, and Copenhagen for parkrun and a boat tour.
heritage / miscellany / railway / running
USA 2024
A day in Seattle, a train trip to Chicago, time in Bossier, a total solar eclipse, and the Johnson Space Center.
heritage / hiking / miscellany / running / waterways
Shetland and home
Two full days on Shetland Mainland, Bressay, Unst and Yell, plus the trip home via Falkirk and Shap
heritage / hiking / miscellany
Fair Isle
A day trip to Fair Isle, most remote inhabited island in the UK, from Tingwall airport on Shetland
Schooner sailing: Orkney, June 2023
A week’s sailing and exploration around Orkney with schooner Trinovante
Cyprus, April 2023
Eight days’ holiday in Cyprus (with a little bit of villa maintenance) including running, walking, heritage and geology.
Cumbria and Lancashire, January 2023
After two and half days at a conference near Birmingham, I travelled north to the Lake District. I had some online meetings to fit in …
Cyprus, August/September 2022
A week and a half in Cyprus, mostly close to Pissouri but with a few outings west, east and north
A run across the Solar System
An interesting (if hot, starting at 31 degrees – so much for the cool of the evening!) run along the River Cam from Midsummer Common …