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With all that’s been going on with the virus, the nearest I got to my planned Alpe Adria trek this year has been four days in the Cairngorms in September. But while four days is clearly not eight weeks, I’m a great fan of Scotland (this was actually my 22nd visit there) and when youContinue reading “Four days in the Cairngorms”

Today was the day I planned to start my Alpe Adria trail journey, from the Pasterze glacier in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Austria. Instead I did my now regular two mile circuit of Crystal Palace Park in south London. Not But this And no, I didn’t climb up the mast, just to theContinue reading “It’s not the Hohe Tauern but….”

As I write, we are six weeks into the UK’s lockdown and any walk beyond the local park seems now a distant memory. What better time to relive favourite walks and look forward to the time when we’re able to put on our boots and explore our beautiful country once more. As with my pastContinue reading “Fantasy UK walks… my top 10”

Well things often don’t turn out as planned, and in the case of 2020 and coronavirus that must be true for just about everybody. With Italy and other parts of Europe still at the centre of the coronavirus pandemic, it seems increasingly unlikely that I’ll get to walk the Alpe Adria trail this year. WhenContinue reading “Pangolins and coronavirus”

This isn’t as easy as it sounds. Over the last 25 years or so, by my reckoning I’ve done nearly 700 day walks. So picking a top 10 is far from easy. But here goes. 10. Tatranska Kotlina to Biela Voda, Tatra mountains, Slovakia The most recent of the Top 10 walks, one I didContinue reading “My top 10 day walks…..so far”

When I tell people I’m going to spend two months walking a trail this summer one of the first things they ask me is how far and how much a day. Well, going by the guide book, it’s some 750 kilometres in total, but when you add the individual days, including the ‘ring of threeContinue reading “I would walk 500 miles… and I would walk 500 more”

Inspired by movies like Wild and A Walk in the Woods, the pilgrimages people make walking the Camino to Santiago , and my own experiences walking routes like the Pennine Way and the Stevenson trail, I wanted to do my own trek through the mountains. This time, not just a “holiday” but an adventure, somethingContinue reading “I’m Larry. In 2020, I’m walking 750 kilometres, from the Alps to the Adriatic, along the Alpe Adria Trail.”