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The walk today was, quite literally, gorgeous. By which I mean, not only beautiful, as you can see from the image above, but took in two magnificent gorges. On the face of it, the route was a little unusual. First it headed north out of Mallnitz, on one side of the Winkelbach valley. The objectiveContinue reading “Hiking the Alpe Adria Trail: Day 7”

Day six of my journey through the Alps to the Adriatic, for reasons that will become clearer, turned out to be probably even more long and arduous than day five. But when I set out in the morning, after taking a bus from my overnight hotel back to the route of the trail, although IContinue reading “Hiking the Alpe Adria Trail: Day 6”

How can I describe today? The word that comes to mind is ‘epic’. At different points in the day I thought this was the most wonderful walk, the most awful, the most beautiful, the most tiring. It’s certainly one of the toughest I’ve ever done, perhaps even the toughest. Why? Well it began with anContinue reading “Hiking the Alpe Adria Trail: Day 5”

To be honest I was surprised I slept as well as I did in the cabin, but come 6 am every little movement of my neighbours, including going to the loo and the dog next door meant I gave up on sleep and thought I’d try my luck in grabbing an early shower (a bitContinue reading “Hiking the Alpe Adria Trail: Day 4”

This morning I said goodbye to my wife, Jeni, and my daughter, Rachel, as they headed off from Dollach for Salzburg before returning home. It’s been lovely having them with me for my first few days, and both of them have been hugely encouraging to me and my Alpe Adria endeavour, even if they don’tContinue reading “Hiking the Alpe Adria Trail: Day 3”

The second day of the trail was very different from the first. Yesterday we walked down from the high, rocky alpine landscape, then descended into the forest. Today was mainly in the level beneath the forest, of pasture, following the Moll valley, parallel, but high above, the main road, walking between farms. The first hourContinue reading “Hiking the Alpe Adria Trail: Day 2”

Finally, the day had arrived. The first day of my long anticipated journey along the Alpe Adria Trail. It almost seemed like it would never happen, after two years of Covid restrictions, and seemingly never ending travel restrictions of one sort or another. And what a spectacular starting point this trail has. Over 2300 metresContinue reading “Hiking the Alpe Adria Trail: Day 1”

It’s been a long wait. Three years since I first decided to take it on. After false starts next Wednesday should see me finally start my walk of the Alpe Adria Trail. So I thought I’d explain what it’s all about, dispel a few myths, try to explain why I’m doing it, and put inContinue reading “The Alpe Adria Trail: my journey approaches…”

The last day of the Two Moors Way is one of the real highlights. Open moorland, trickling rivers, deep wooded gorges, plus a real sting in the tail – a big climb and descent – before you arrive at the alpine-like coastal town of Lynmouth. This morning we resumed our walk from Simonsbath, climbing upContinue reading “Walking across Devon from coast to coast: Day 10”

It’s always a bit sad as you approach the end of a long distance walk. We began the day 100 miles in, with only 17 to go.. This penultimate day was a short one, only six miles long and entirely on Exmoor (and in Somerset). We’d stayed overnight at some lovely lodgings, in a scenicContinue reading “Walking across Devon (and Somerset) from coast to coast: Day 9”