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 Dwight Peck's personal website
Winter 2016-2017
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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Coming off an intangibly rewarding summer on hydrobikes in northern Wisconsin, USA . . .
. . . and a wetlands study trip to visit the Goose Pond Sanctuary and the Horicon Marsh (above), here are:
Some odds and ends as we decompress from our travels and prepare for a few more
A walk in the rain up Mont Tendre, 2 October 2016 |
A walk up the Pointe de Poêle Chaud, 9 October 2016 |
A scurry past the bull to visit Les Pralets, 19 October |
A sunny walk up from the Col de la Croix, 30 October |
A little snow near Le Planet and Perroude du Vaud, 19 November 2016 |
Two weeks in Viterbo with side trips in the Lazio region, Italy, Nov.-Dec. 2016
Calci near Pisa, on the way south, 23-24 Nov. 2016 |
Scenes of Viterbo (1), 25 November 2016 |
A daytrip into Rome, 27 November 2016 |
Civita di Bagnoregio, 28 November 2016 |
Scenes of Orvieto in Umbria, 28 November 2016 |
The Villa Farnese in Caprarola, 29 November 2016 |
The Castello Orsini-Odescalchi in Bracciano |
More scenes of Viterbo (2), 30 November 2016 |
Ostia Antica, Roman port, 1 December 2016 |
Lago di Bolsena, 2 December 2016 |
Still more scenes of Viterbo (3), 3 December 2016 |
Pyrgi & Castello di Santa Severa, 4 December 2016 |
Scenes of Tarquinia, 4 December 2016 |
Sarzana and Ligurian castles, 6 December 2016 |
Lunch in Lu, 7 December 2016 |
Settimo Vittone & the road home, 8 December 2016 |
Mid-winter odds and ends, December 2016 -- February 2017
Scenes of downtown Zürich, 16 December 2016 |
Looking for snow above Givrine, 21 December 2016 |
The Étang du Duzillet in Ollon, 17 & 29 January 2017 |
Wandering in the Grande Rolat, 21 January 2017 |
Snowshoeing in forests above Longirod, 11 February 2017 |
Ten days in Treviso and the Veneto region, February-March 2017
Two-day stopover on the Lago di Viverone, 24 February 2017 |
A walk around Novara in the Piemonte, 25 February 2017 |
An afternoon in Biella, 25 February 2017 |
Asolo in the Veneto, & the Queen of Cyprus, 27 February |
Bassano del Grappa & its Alpini Bridge, 27 February |
A brief visit to Castelfranco Veneto, 28 February 2017 |
Carnevale in Treviso, 28 February 2017 |
Treviso walkabout (1), 1 March 2017 |
Crypts of Treviso, 1 March 2017 |
Padua & the Scrovegni Chapel, 2 March 2017 |
Padua sights, 2 March 2017 |
Belluno in the Dolomites, 3 March 2017 |
Treviso in the rain, 4 March 2017 |
Home over the Alps, 5 March 2017 |
Additional fun in March and April
Bushwhacking in the Bois du Marchairuz, 14 March 2017 |
Three springtime hikes in the Lake Geneva region |
A few more springtime hikes, April-May 2017 |
A few views of Genolier, near Nyon, 9 May 2017 |
Melvin the Doge joins the team, April-June 2017 |
May 2017: Ten more days in the Veneto region of Italy
Montagnana, the Città Murata, and other wonders south of Padua
       
    
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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 21 November 2016, updated 15 July 2017.
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