There’s been a lot of rain about in the last week, mostly at night time, which for us has been a stroke of luck. But here in Quorn it is not when it rains that matters so much, but whether or not they get decent drinking water…and for some reason, that is not happening. We use tap water for drinking, but it is nearly undrinkable. It is my only complaint but obviously I have strong [...]

My polar walks still continue as do my town circuits. Besides the superb disused railway station, the post office, and an old glorious pub, I also walked past a church - the Uniting. These days people there pray about a tasty calamari, for it is now Spirou’s Seafood and Salad Bar. The owners were criticised earlier on for desecrating this church until they discovered that Spirou had saved it from being demolished - now they [...]

The polar air mass was the reason my fingers and ears were hurting so much on my morning walk. South Australia as a whole was getting these massive cold winds and rumour had it that we would get snow on Mount Remarkable, but we didn’t. Did I tell you I don’t like edges as much as corners because you can always see where you could end up if you slip off an edge, whereas a [...]

This was classed as a hard walk but the hardest thing was finding it.     We had many helpers: the GPS woman (very kind and polite); shop owners (polite but ‘what about asking the tourist office’); people on the zebra crossing “maaaate, what are you doing; people in parked cars - thought I was booking them - that’s prior to meds; forcing a car off the road - (nah, but thought about it) and [...]

Another glorious walking day in South Australia. Cool but sunny with clouds coming and going and so far it has rained nearly every night, stopping at 0600 just before my early walk. I called in to the grumpy baker, not open, and not happy, but he opened anyway to sell me a croissant, a present for Corrie whom I kept awake last night with my ‘hots and colds’. Black Hill (not named as such because [...]

My usual early morning walk, but a dark start as our destinations become further and further away.  Anstey Hill is a range of hills that offer numerous walking options, though simpler facilities than the others. By coincidence, the walks we've done have gone from having toilets, and an array of amenities including paying for parking, to no facilities at all, and parking over the gutter. The first path we walked today was towards the ridge. [...]

Superb. It was a gorge, but a lot more as well. The Conservation Park calls it a gorge but I would call it gorgeous. As usual in these parks there are paths going everywhere, and at times it is difficult to translate the signs into good directions, but it works. So many times we have thought our decisions and their directions were not so good, but each time something better came from them. It’s been [...]

We walked the southern Mt Lofty Range this morning - up it, down it, and around it, on home made paths, on gravel ones, stony, wide and steep narrow ones with sheer drops. We both felt dizzy for awhile, not a good place to have those feelings so stopped for some protein and water. This experience took me back to Switzerland and our four hour non stop climb where I fainted twice with low blood [...]

I walked in to the tourist office, I thought, and was surprised they had no maps, or information about walks in the area, so I pulled out a book of walks that were in the book I mentioned in Day 1’s post. They were impressed, so I asked if I could go through these walks with them. I was still concerned at their apparent disinterest in me or my topic, however, she did know of [...]

Well, we’re here in Hahndorf, named after a town in Germany. It also has many original buildings with the traditional fachwerk architecture that gives the town a decidedly German look and feel. Just as Covid began we were planning to walk across Bavaria where the real Hahndorf lives and coming here was pure coincidence. It is too late to walk today (except for my daily 10kms that I walk when we are reviving and surviving [...]