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
Category: running
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
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 …
Staffordshire holiday
A long weekend in a cottage at Froghall Wharf, end of the Caldon Canal in Staffordshire.
Lake District and Lancashire
Walks to Little Langdale from Elterwater, up Whitbarrow, to Mearness Point, and up Pike O’Blisco; and runs at Morecambe Prom parkrun and along the Lancaster Canal.