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 Dwight Peck's personal website
Winter 2014-2015
Dispatches from way, way behind the lines in Switzerland
You may not find this terribly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go.
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What with one thing and another, we haven't been able to romp in the snow very much at all this winter. We found some good uses of our time anyway.
A few days in Aosta, Italy, and a hike in the Valpelline
Aosta and its Roman remains, late October 2014 |
A hike to the Rifugio Prarayer in the Valpelline |
Two weeks in Lucca and northern Tuscany, November 2015
Lu in the Piemonte region, 13-14 November 2014 |
Asti in the Piemonte, 14 November 2014 |
Lucca in Tuscany, 15-23 November 2014 |
Pistoia, 19 November 2014 |
San Gimignano, 21 November 2014 |
Volterra, 21 November 2014 |
Prato, 22 November 2014 |
Last days in Lucca |
Vercelli in the Piedmont, 24 November 2014 |
Turin, or Torino, in the Piedmont, 25 November |
Autumn walks
Walk to La Bourri above Torgon,
19 October 2014 |
From Les Avants to the Lake Geneva overlook,
21 December 2014 |
Montpellier and the Languedoc, southern France, December 2014-January 2015
Tournon-sur-Rhône, Ardèche, 25 December 2014 |
Teyran, Languedoc-Roussillon, 26-30 December 2014 |
Montpellier, Hérault dept., 26 December 2014 |
Aigues-Mortes, Gard dept., 27 December 2014 |
Montpellier, and the opera, 28 December 2014 |
Saintes Maries de la Mer, the Camargue, 29 December |
The amphitheatre in Arles, 29 December 2014 |
Sète and Agde, Hérault dept., 30 December 2014 |
Béziers, Languedoc, 30 December 2014 |
The medieval village of La Couvertoirade, 31 December |
Meyruis, Tarn Gorges, New Year's Eve |
Nîmes, 1-2 January 2015 |
Old and New at the amphitheatre of Nîmes |
January-February outings
The forest of Grande Rolat, 11 January |
Mont Roux in deep snow, 1 February |
Les Grangettes Ramsar Site, 8 February |
Ramsar visit to the Maison Rivière |
Arezzo, Siena, Cortona, and environs in Tuscany, February-March 2015
Pavia, Lombardy, and its Certosa, 25-27 February 2015 |
Arezzo, Tuscany, 27 February - 6 March 2015 |
Siena, Tuscany, 2 March 2015 |
Cortona, Tuscany, 3 March 2015 |
Castiglione del Lago, Lake Trasimeno in Umbria |
Castello di Poppi in the Casentino, 5 March 2015 |
Last views of Arezzo, 6 March 2015 |
The Piazza Grande in Arezzo |
Cremona, Lombardy, 7-9 March 2015 |
Cremona, and Lu in the Piemonte, 10 March |
Late-season odds and ends
Zürich, Switzerland, 16 March 2015 |
Hike to Pré du Four, 22 March 2015 |
What's next?
In late May, for our sins, we're both off to help out at the 12th Conference of the Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in Punta del Este, Uruguay, until mid-June. Following which, if our luck holds, we'll be spending much of the summer with friends and family at the lake in northern Wisconsin, back home in mid-September.
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