Kiwi-family
{Rachael, the Mama of the family}
- Time of past OR future Camino
- walking every day for the rest of my life
Especially for @VNwalking
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wow...2 cents & u can touch the cloud!
Such simple beauty!A carpet of snowdrops on yesterday's 21km walk in the Surrey Hills. Walking close to home can be good too.
HahahahahaaaaLet’s quell that homesickness @VNwalking . This was five minutes later:
...Let’s quell that homesickness @VNwalking . This was five minutes later:
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@yaying we certainly got to touch the cloud - it completely enveloped us, swirling around making awesome patterns, and given a wild soundtrack by the howling wind that brought it to us
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Spot the white egret and its reflection in the water.
Another picture from yesterday's 21km walk in The Surrey Hills
Breathtaking! Thanks so much for sharing the beauty.Helvellyn Range
Hi Katherine , lovely pictures . For me it’s almost 40years ago that I walked around in Massachusetts and Rhode Island .A 15K wintry walk on Sunday in Minuteman Park near Boston, where I'm staying for client work.
I don't think I'm going to encounter this much snow on the Camino in May!
I added some extra distance when I dropped my cell phone into the snow and had to go back to find it . . . fortunately, it left a cellphone shaped hole and I have a good weatherproof case on it!
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That is so beautyful .Helvellyn Range
Hmm, some serious stairs there, Waka! Thanks.I did as nice walk a couple of days ago trying to replicate day 3 on the VDLP which is 30 km with the steep hill going up to Almaden de la Plata, not to sure about the hill although I found it very steep and hard. I ended up doing 34 km and felt rather knackered at the end.
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Hmm, some serious stairs there, Waka! Thanks.
Thank you @FamPed ! The fishing boat Hesquiat is a favourite. I've taken so many photos of it!Lovely pictures @Theatregal. I love the one with the boat, and the firtst one have a typical Swedish look, almost like you had been right nextdoor.
I've been enjoying some winter sun... I've been walking (strolling) in Seville, Marbella, Estapona, Denia and the Pyrenees...
I just want to get in the car and drive back... I LOVE spain
Lesbrass, was it you who was looking for wide shoes, or am I as often I can be, mistaken? Your photos brighten up dark skies, though today was bright enough in Dublin.@FamPed - we've been home 2 hours and I just want to get in the car and drive back... I LOVE spain
Lesbrass, was it you who was looking for wide shoes, or am I as often I can be, mistaken? Your photos brighten up dark skies, though today was bright enough in Dublin.
Watch out for those rogue sea lions if you’re walking on the pier!Snowfall today on the west coast. Wonderful to have a day off, to not have to drive anywhere and just enjoy a walk in the snow to the village for coffee.
Watch out for those rogue sea lions if you’re walking on the pier!
Ah! Catkins! Takes me back 60 years!View attachment 39701View attachment 39703 Catkins, blue sky, and a very cold day in the Surrey Hills. A great day for walking.
I also wanted to say how much I enjoyed your photos. That is a rare day indeed to see Steveston covered in snow!True! Luckily this little girl was absolutely fine and it's the only incident like this ever reported. There are signs everywhere now warning not to feed the seals or sit on the edge of the pier, but people just sit on top of the signs...and still feed the seals
Denbies vineyard...almost my back garden!Vineyards and Churches - where else can you be but on a pilgrim route.
This is the Pilgrims Way in South East England. It joined Winchester Cathedral with Canterbury Cathedral and then on to the Via Francigena to Rome. This is Denbies Wine Estate (www.denbies.co.uk)
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This is St Martha's Church just above Guildford and one of the few on the route.
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im drooling...wonders how mighty blue skies will be looks like at the pacific & the sound of the waves...hoooopsPacific Ocean, crystal clear
And can you swim there? looks very tempting!A spur of the moment decision to do an epic walk yesterday. Not so long (about 2 and a quarter kms each way), but the first half was a very steep downhill to the bottom of a valley - and of course whomever goes down must walk up...
(Well, not necessarily. The lady with the big bamboo pole in the last pic? She was hanging with us in case someone gave out and needed to be carried - there is a hammock on the pole, and the ladies regularly end up carrying tourists up the hill, for a very reasonable cost.)
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I don't know, I think tourists do. Yesterday no-one was, but then it was only us and some Burmese people, and they don't swim so much. Honestly, I was surprised the water was so clean: streams here are used for all sorts of things, from laundry to trash disposal.And can you swim there? looks very tempting!
So, is rygga a rucksack? A new day, something new learned... my walk was very short and nothing to show, except for slush.Yesterday I went out with my rygga and poles and had a walk in knee deep snow. Regretting I didn´t take any pictures, I thought about it, but at the time I didn´t really want to slow down and pull out my phone. The only walk I have done today was to the gym. I was half way home when I rememberd that I didn´t take pictures yesterday, so I went back. Then I went the other way around the block.
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thanks, Sabine, especially for the snowdrops, and the yellow arrows!9k.circular walk around the Ermitage of Vrijhern.
It stayed dry so happy me.
Sorry you didn't get out, Sailor. Hope you have a real SPRING in your step next time!ZERO - that's the number of kilometers walked this morning by Sailor. Fully dressed, backpack on, gloves on, walking pole on hand, opened the door and what did I see? Mother nature played a good one on me, the skies opened up and the cold rain was slowly coming down. On the camino I would have pushed forward and walk in the rain, not here, I just came back into my house and took a nice HOT shower. We shall try again tomorrow.
Tonight we will advance our clocks one hour [Spring Forward] and tomorrow is the unofficial start of my Spring season. These are the unofficial starts of the seasons [for me]:
-- Spring starts when we advance the clocks one hour in March [tonight].
-- Summer starts on the last Monday of May, Memorial Day.
-- Autumn starts on the first Monday of September, Labor Day.
-- Winter starts on the last Friday of November, Day after Thanksgiving.
Those are my important dates. No pares de caminar, la luz de Dios alumbra su camino.
Buenas tarde, Miss K, We will try again tomorrow, and if it is still raining, the stair climber machine in our family room is ready to go. Ultreya, la luz de Dios alumbra su camino!. . . Sorry you didn't get out, Sailor . . .
Looks dry over there , it's still raining over here .10k to yet another local village.
Looks dry over there , it's still raining over here .Stayed nice and dry at home .
Can't win them all.
You walked that path with all that water ??Sunny and dry over here.Drove over our language and regional border to the Walloon part. Roclenge sur Geer is a small village from where different circular walks start.
The rain of the last days left the countryroads so saturated that I decided to use my gps on cellphone to find plan B.
Second part of the walk was on higher ground...more climbing but dry.
14k and some serious climbing.Tired but happy. And an encounter with a not so nice dog.
You walked that path with all that wather ??
Miss VN, in your last photo I see a tree surrounded with sticks . . . I saw the same thing during port visits to Thailand. Are those sticks used in any type of construction or for agriculture? Just wondering. Muchas gracias, y que la luz de Dios alumbre su camino.Dry and crispy over here . . .
Hope you took your snorkel for the wet part of the walk, Sabine!14k and some serious climbing.Tired but happy.
Yes, @Sailor ,They're bamboo poles that are used to support plants, being stored like that for when they'll be needed next. (BTW, this is a very nice new avatar you have!)Are those sticks used in any type of construction or for agriculture?
Buen camino de la vida, everyone! May Miss Weather be kind to all...will try again tomorrow, all depends on Miss Weather.
All the better for illuminating midnight walks in search of sustenance (assuming it also glows in the dark)!you can see this thing from the moon!
Elephants taking a bath .
Yes, Sailor, you caught my attention straight away! I am just thinking about a change of avatar myself. Ha! A change of avatar, indeed. Far from avatars were we reared!Thanks Miss VN for the info. The avatar is a photo of a magnet on our refrigerator, you can see this thing from the moon! Que la luz de Dios alumbre su camino.
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