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Where do ( did ) you walk locally in 2024?

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For a number of years work has been ongoing to develop a walking/cycling path from the North side of Dublin Bay over to the other side. A beautiful new section has just been opened. Of course, when publicity advertised it, I knew there would be hordes of people... and today I joined the hordes!
It was delightful. I met colleagues from my working life I have not seen for over ten years! Here are some photos, starting at the ferryport...
 
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Having recently been to East Sussex and Kent here are a few photos from our time away.
We stopped in Arundel for lunch on our way. Arundel Castle belongs to the Duke of Norfolk - the Earl Marshal of England, responsible for occasions such as the funeral of Queen Elizabeth 11 and the coronation of King Charles 111.
Pett Levels - a walk along the beach path. Across the road and behind a bank are the old 'Military Road' and canal.


Winchelsea - one of the old Cinque Ports. Near the church is this tree where Wesley preached his last open air sermon
The church is in the old town in Rye, another Cinque Port. Good coffee and lunches in the nearby cafe.

We were at Willesborough for a church meeting - with church members from as far afield as Walsall and Birmingham as well as Devon.
Waiting for the weather to improve here before we walk locally again!
 
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I feel incredibly fortunate to live so close to the stunning Sierra de Guadarrama in Madrid. Recently, I had the chance to tackle a challenging but rewarding hike up to Pico de La Maliciosa, with breathtaking views 2,227m above sea level.
 

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A little envious of all the beautiful nature paths and hikes you are able to do and see in your areas.

Just a little before dinner walk near my house.
 

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The Philadelphia Chapter of American Pilgrims did a nice 5 mile hike today that was very reminiscent of the Camino - road walking, forest paths, and highway underpasses. (It was really much more lovely than these pictures reflect).

 
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Interesting profile @SabsP. Did you have to climb over a fence?

Assorted recent local walks:


A group that cares for a nearby town's conservation areas a few years ago put up junction marker poles with copies of kids' drawings. They've just added QR codes to them. The markers even show up in apps that use Open Street Map base maps, see top left and bottom middle. The odd shaped house and garage has long intrigued me.


A special treat for me this morning, dawn from our living room window. Actually the exposure is off, the clouds were the color of their reflection.
 
We travelled to the Okanagan this past weekend for a family wedding. I had two glorious mornings at sunrise, walking along grassland trails in the hills of the Lake Country area. Sounds of Northern Harrier Hawks, Northern Flickers, Savannah and Vesper Sparrows and Red-winged Blackbirds. Black-billed Magpies screaming at a Red-tailed Hawk and a Douglas Squirrel and a Stellar's Jay screaming at each other

 
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Well, my first response: you are such an artist.
My second: in the goodness and beauty of created things, the Original Author, by analogy, can be seen....
 
This morning Google sent me a collection of similar shots. They were similar because they all were taken in the same field we cross to get to the hillside wooded walk we occasionally do. It is mainly a corn (maize) field as open as we get to see on our walks.
 
Scenes from yesterday's walk around the pond.



This is a mast year for oaks so there are zillions of ball bearings on the trails. Be extra careful on down slopes.

Why Do Some Years Produce More Acorns Than Others?

Some years are boom years for acorns. Other years, we seem to have no nuts. Why do some years produce more acorns than others?
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One of our White Mountain hikes made the news this week. There is a loop hike with a huge parking lot intended mainly for ski season. There are a couple of view points along it, one with the name Artists Bluff. Here is a photo from it I took on one of our walks.



The foliage looks spectacular in autumn. There is a photo of it on this webpage that describes the trail.

Hike the Artists Bluff Trail in Franconia Notch State Park NH

Artists Bluff Trail in Franconia Notch State Park NH is
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You can imagine the usage the trail gets in leaf-peeping season but you don't have to; look at this:



You can also watch this segment from a Boston news broadcast.
YouTube video id: LGMsYSsydew
 
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Hi Kirkie,
Reading your post reminded me of one of my favourite songs…
Chris Rea ..Windy Town
“Driving down from the highland line,
We done some gigs on the Clyde and the Tyne”

Unfortunately I’m not able to post a video of the song/words
Ill have to update my skills!
 
I received a request this morning to embed a video into a post. This is so easy I'm going to show how to drop in a video yourself instead. I'm posting this publicly instead of just replying to the DM in case anyone else is interested.

You just copy and paste the URL as text into your post and the forum software transforms it.

As an example here are two video URLs that are identical; I copied one and then pasted it twice, each on its own line. I edited the first one to remove the "h" so the software wouldn't recognize the text as a URL. You won't see the text of second; you will see an embedded video instead.

ttps://youtube.com/watch?v=jiDAea6l6sM

It is just slightly more complicated if you are viewing the video with the YouTube app. There you have to click the "Share" button and then the "Copy link" one. Then you paste that into your post. Here is a different video and the URL gotten for it using that method (again with the "h" removed so you can see the untransformed URL):

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Note the "?si=Ny2RzsxvzRct3eQQ" at the end. That can be removed and I almost always do that but it is optional. I suspect it is some kind of tracking tag. Anyway, here are two app type URLs handled the same way as the browser ones above:

ttps://youtu.be/Npfl4cHJbCE
 
Thank you so much Rick
I will have a go at it although it might take some time!
Everything is done on my iPad as opposed to a smartphone so not sure if that makes any difference
Upwards and onwards then!
All the best
Annette
 
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Walking a long distance path in the Netherlands. Beautifull season with changing treecolours, but we also seea lot of typical Dutch countryside of straight paths through grassland and along dikes.
 

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Tuesday afternoon I took a longer solo walk (this year they have otherwise all been morning ones). I decided that I finally had to go see the old cranberry bogs that I've heard of for years. It isn't much more than a kilometer further from a state park that we walk regularly. I even took one of our regular trails to get there.


I was surprised at the openness; our walks are woodland.


I went back to the parking lot along a newly discovered trail running along a creek. There were rakes hanging near bridges and boardwalks with a request to clean them. I did for a long one; the others didn't need it.
 
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Hi there @Peter Fransiscus
Is that a pair of white feet clambering on one of the hands of the clock? The screen on my mobile doesn't show it clearly enough. Looks like fun though... hope all's well your end.

Cheers
 
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Hi there @Peter Fransiscus
Is that a pair of white feet clambering on one of the hands of the clock? The screen on my mobile doesn't show it clearly enough. Looks like fun though... hope all's well your end.

Cheers
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Street sweepers! I love it. I noticed nothing before on my smartphone but you got me to zoom in.
 
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lovingkindness said:
Hi there @Peter Fransiscus
Is that a pair of white feet clambering on one of the hands of the clock? The screen on my mobile doesn't show it clearly enough. Looks like fun though... hope all's well your end.

Cheers
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They are two people who sweep the clock further and further with a broom.
Everything is well over here.
 
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Today the Philly Chapter of American Pilgrims paid homage to the Day of the Dead by strolling through Laurel Hill Cemetery. The oldest tombstones are from the revolutionary period, and the newest ones just a few days old.
 

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...familiar things & places, Oui !!!!!

I feel at home when I am eating this:

La Tarte Tatin...


et le pain croustigraine...


...and roaming the GR 652 which passes near friends...
 
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Bonjour @SabsP

Sorry about the fullsize photos in my last post. There seems to be a blip somewhere. I tried to insert the photos as 'thumbnail' but they kept coming up as full size. I had a go on both a mobile phone and on a computer... .

Cheers
 
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Bonjour @SabsP

Sorry about the fullsize photos in my last post. There seems to be a blip somewhere. I tried to insert the photos as 'thumbnail' but they kept coming up as full size.

Cheers
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That was addressed on another thread when I made a similar comment:
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@ivar has changed some settings for uploaded photos. One was to increase the size of thumbnails. They don't really need to be clicked on to view the image well and they should load faster.
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This morning at Chateau-Thierry, France, I attended la cérémonie de commémoration du 106e anniversaire de l'Armistice de 1918, a solemn service of remembrance.

American forces fought with the French along the Marne River during the summer of 1918. ...May we never forget.

This historic view



shows AEF forces assembling on the north side of the Marne; the island where I am now writing is on the far side of the river.
 
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...a few weeks ago I went for a long walk from a village in Oxfordshire to Warwickshire then back again. Along the way I dragged my feet through a great deal of mud and took many drab photos.


Day 1...heading to Lower Brailes


Day 4...remains of an old St James Chapel, Alveston


...where William Shakespeare lays buried, Stratford-upon-Avon


...attending 'Othello' at the RSC, a ghastly plot brilliantly staged.

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...the King's swans on the River Avon


Day 5 ...between fields, after Hampton Lucy


The Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick (12th century- ) which started life as the Chapel of St James the Great..


Day 6...Thomas & Kathryn Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick, in the chancel of St Mary's, Warwick.


Day 8....then back again



..and now for the maps! They are a work of art.

For the first few nights I returned by bus to friends. After that I found places to sleep along the way.

OS Maps: following The Shakespeare Way and other trails from The Sibfords to Warwick then back again via The Dassetts and Hornton.

Oxfordshire public library has an almost complete set of Ordinance Survey Maps. I borrowed a laminated copy of OL45 (Cotswolds) and also a paper copy of OS 206 (Stratford-upon-Avon).

The rest I purchased along the way -
OS 191 (Banbury), OS 221 (Coventry & Warwick), and OS 206 (Edge Hill & Fanny Compton). These came with a mobile download map & and offline gps tracking.

Such fun!
 
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Yep, no one does mud better than @SabsP. I've only come close once. That was a week's hike in NZ fifty years ago. Sand flies all the way too. That probably still doesn't get me up to the misery level of a day hike in Belgium.
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Mud can suck the boots of your feet in NZ. Without hiking sticks to plumb the depth a tramper can just about drown in it...
 
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Back for a few weeks in Lanzarote
No mud
It’s hot
First view of a volcano on our way to Teguise, the former capital of the island
A cross at the crossroads
Santa Barbara overlooking the town and out to sea
An abandoned house
Teguise in the distance
15 Km on our first day, maybe a bit too much
 

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A section of the GR 131 the long distance path that runs along all the Canary Islands
A fierce wind blew us up to the Ermita of the lady of the snow, passing the abandoned Ermita of St Juan
As luck would have it, we met the caretaker at the top who very kindly opened the little church for us, our first time seeing the inside despite our many visits there

Then down the long winding valley, passing once fertile, abandoned terraces and little houses built into the rocks
Almost at the coast, we travelled back by bus
 

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And, today, in a care home, the celebrant named Cecilia as the Saint of the Day!
 
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