Home in time for a Sunday blossom stroll along the Berlin Wall Trail and then back along the Panke to the flat. The fleeting visit of the blossom each spring is one of my favourite sites (and sights) of memory in this city that is full of them…
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A Sunday long run dropping down from Menston to follow the Wharfe to Ilkley. A misty but beautiful morning in Yorkshire…
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The village has a beauty even under grey skies. All trails from the way marker lead back here, having reached out in all directions across the fields and through the forest. Each walk or run from the house offers a multitude of options… which should we take today?
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An early morning run with the birds up to the top of Brandenburg’s second highest “mountain” (you run the hills you have). Absolutely lovely start to the day.
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The walk to work. The morning light over the fields was a soul-lifting start to the week…
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Contemplating the line in the world. Our latest piece on The Winding Trail comes from Denmark's North Sea coast, a wild and windswept place that took us on a journey through memory from the Irish Sea to the Baltic shore...
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A short Sunday run during which Fläming never felt so wild and inhospitable, except… a good proportion of this run was done on the immaculately cleared bike paths that link the villages and keep people moving whether on two wheels or two feet, whatever the weather…
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Our latest piece for The Winding Trail is all about our unexpected trip to the Netherlands and how it is sometimes in the moment when plans are derailed that journeys of discovery begin...
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Picking up Lotte to bring her home for Christmas… but not before a wander around Bremen University’s lovely lake… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
Adventures in Psychojography… morning run out from the Uni in Bremen and across the motorway into the drained marshlands of Blockland and Hollerland, shrouded in mist with the geese calling across the fields… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
In it, I explore the German forest, the tales to be found between the trees, and a climb to the top of the Brocken, a place of dancing witches, Soviet spies and spectres of all kinds...
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The Gorreana tea plantation on the island of São Miguel, was - for a long time - the only place in Europe where tea was produced and its history tells us a lot about the difficulties of making a life in the middle of the ocean…
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Morning in Lomba da Fazenda… the sound of birds, cows and an incredibly mournful donkey. Last night we heard a Cory’s shearwater, which would have been quite disturbing if we hadn’t known what it was! #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
Walk by the Lagan to the old lock keeper’s cottage where a friendly volunteer sitting by the fire told us the story of the last tenants and a little slice of Belfast history… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
Running with the sunrise along the Lagan and into town to say good morning and long time no see to Nuala… there was still frost on the Belfast hills and some keen Sunday rowers on the river… #gettingthereslowly #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
Desire paths and lakeside trails on a stroll through Reinickendorf and Pankow, crunching on pavements gritted for long-melted snow past the last of the abandoned Christmas trees… a melancholy winter morning… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
Tales from the weekend... yesterday we headed south to the Saxony/Saxony-Anhalt border to explore the network of lakes that were once deep, open-cast lignite mines. Villages were swallowed whole by these mines as hung chunks were taken out of the landscape... #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
The forests and the fields of Fläming certainly put on a show for us on our walk out from the little yellow house… even after six years we are still finding some paths we’ve not yet walked, and the familiar trails always offer up something new… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
Arrived at the little yellow house on the edge of the village to find the fog descended and the trees magic in their ghostly beauty. Cold tho’… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
Winter in Berlin can be a brutal time, and then every so often, it drops a bit of magic on you… wonderful light on the mountain this morning… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor #gettingthereslowly
Adventures in psychojography: Chilly morning run through the frosty streets of Gesundbrunnen and Prenzlauer Berg, dodging abandoned Christmas trees as I go… be careful on the bridges! #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor #gettingthereslowly
On the way to the Silvesterlauf! Last run of the year is up the Teufelsberg… #runberlin #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
