We started our walk in beautiful Bergen after walking through one of the oldest parts and you could tell it blind folded cause this was their busy fish market opened every day. It was the guiding scent for many a popular place. Across a bridge then near vertically up, it started with stairs. Because of ‘af’ I decided on the more gradual winding road than the stairs, owing to my atrial fibrillation. Then the [...]
We had a birthday party today. Very small but relatively large for those in the know. Recently I have found myself in the right place just when something important happened. This woman (86 today) and her two girls, I would say about in their 50s, settled in for breakfast. I had built a bit of a relationship with them the day before and thus had got through the small talk. They had come to [...]
We met him as we entered our new home for a few nights, Trondheim. It was our last stop but because of paths being closed it was not, so we will spend time discovering the other tracks because we have kilometres to do. We warmed to him straight away as he was interested in similar philosophers, mystics, great thinkers over recent times and us. Names like Schiller, Jung, and Ghandi were not just other [...]
Jack dragged himself out of the potentially deadly marshes dragging his tent behind him. We met him at breakfast just the other day. He is a pilgrim (this can be anyone who thinks they are a pilgrim from a dedicated church goer to a person who loves to travel abroad, that’s us). Now I met him again, he looked 10 years beyond his tender 40 years and he was having breakfast. He was in [...]
We had just completed a fairly long day of 25kms, Corrie was at home looking after her unhealed elbow, sore back and painful toes, a bigger deal than she will let on. As I continued past an athletics field I saw this bent over woman (about our age) walking along using poles. From a non alarming distance I asked her if they were working for her to which she replied “sort of”. After chatting [...]
I feeeeeeeel good. You must see the movie called the burial with Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx. Well, you don’t ‘must’ but I think most people would feel good after watching it and hearing the feel good lyrics in this movie. I felt good walking the streets of Oslo, and it gave me the peace and quiet I needed to find out the meaning of this very likeable city. So I perused the [...]
Santa Croce It seems a very ordinary show Until you sit and slowly look around, It still won’t be salubrious I know But pearls are in their shells when they are found. Once opened though the mystery has gone And there’s no longer any fantasy, Just ordinary now we’re not so fond Should gifts of pearls be left below the sea. Now ordinary is what many covet So much destruction makes it look like [...]
We were surprised when our bus driver (we were off to a new hiking ground) told three girls the complete wrong way to go. We were sitting in the seat that usually distracts the bus driver so we heard it all. We knew this area well and told the bus driver that he had given the girls the wrong direction. When they came back he apologised to them and gave them our directions. We [...]
Most friends and family know where we are. But not everyone knows where the Dolomites are. They are a mountain range in north eastern Italy that form part of the Southern Limestone Alps and extend from the River Adige in the west to the Valley Piave in the east. Most of the larger mountains we saw were above 2000 metres with the two largest being a Swiss mountain - Tofana di Rozes, just over [...]
We’re sort of getting used to the bus. Corrie no longer jumps into my lap when the front of the bus tries to get rid of the back. It’s more a small amount of blood on my hand where she has pressed her finger nails in a little too hard. Wandering up the street we were having some trouble with our ‘google gear’, so I asked a bunch of 7 year olds where our [...]
