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 Dwight Peck's personal website
Winter 2017-2018
Good fun, far from the Trumpian horrors
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 featuring a dredging operation on the Upper Mississippi River, here are:
Some odds and ends as we decompress from our travels and prepare for a few more
A few views of the Aubonne River, 24 September |
A visit to the Barrage d'Hongrin, 1 October 2017 |
Some views of Interlaken, Switzerland, and of Rosenlaui
Alison and Mark's visit, 3-6 October 2017 / Mont Tendre with Dr Joe, 15 October
The berghotel Rosenlaui, 3 October 2017 |
The 'Romantikweg' above Rosenlaui, 4 October |
Kleine Scheidegg, Eiger views, and hike down, 5 October |
Mont Tendre in fine weather, 15 October 2017 |
A visit to Lisbon, Portugal, late October 2017
First impressions of Lisbon, 27 October 2017 |
Lisbon's Museu de Arte Antiga, 27 October 2017 |
Lisbon flea market, and National Pantheon, 28 October |
Lisbon's Castelo de São Jorge, 28 October 2017 |
Lisbon walkabout, 29 October 2017 |
Sintra, Portugal, and the National Palace, 29 October |
Belém, maritime museum & Belém Tower, 30 October |
Museu de Arte Antiga and Belém monastery, 31 October |
Autumnal interlude
Mont de Bière Devant in the fog, 19 November 2017 |
Les Grangettes on the lake, and Melvin the Doge |
San Marino and Emilia-Romagna, Italy, mid-December 2017
Settimo Vittone and a stop-off in Ferrara,
12-13 December 2017 |
Comacchio on the Adriatic Sea,
14 December 2017 |
The Republic of San Marino in the rain,
15 December 2017 |
Rimini on the Adriatic, in the rain,
16 December 2017 |
The walled city and castle of Gradara,
17 December 2017 |
Pesaro and Fano on the Marche seacoast,
17 December 2017
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The Fortezza di San Leo
18 December 2017
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Another look at San Marino's clifftop towers
18 December 2017
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Back to Rimini and the Museo della Città
19 December 2017 |
Moving on to Longiano in the Romagna
20 December 2017
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Historic Cesena and the Rocca Malatestiana
21 December 2017 |
Brisighella and the Donkeys' Street
22 December 2017 |
Forlimpopoli and Bertinoro near Forlì
22 December 2017 |
Vogogna in the Ossola valley
23-24 December 2017 |
January interlude
A snowshoe walk to the Chalet de la Croix
31 December 2017 |
Views of Fribourg, Switzerland, on a grey day
10 January 2018 |
Not much snow above Bassins, 14 January 2018 |
A fine snowy day in the Jura, 11 February 2018 |
Lodi trip, 19-28 February
The Piazza di Duomo in Lodi, Italy, 20 February 2018 |
The Tempio Incoronata & other sights in Lodi, 21 February |
More Lodi sightseeing, mainly churches, 22 February 2018 |
The Brera Art Gallery in Milan, 23 February 2018 |
The Castello Sforzesco in Milan, 23 February 2018 |
An afternoon in Crema in Lombardy, 24 February 2018 |
Lodi by night, & a last look round, 25 February 2018 |
Venegono Superiore & Castiglione Olona, 26-27 February |
Scenes of Como, on Lake Como, 27 February 2018 |
Melvin the Doge guides us over the Simplon Pass, 28 February |
March and April follow-up
Forest scrambles above Marchissy, 3 March 2018 |
Memory tests in the forest of Grande Rolat, 14 March 2018 |
Poignant winter scenes from the Swiss Jura, 31 March 2018 |
More poignant winter scenes, 8 April 2018 |
A semi-snow walk to La Correntine, 22 April 2018 |
A walk down the Gorge du Chauderon, 24 April 2018 |
A bushwhacking direttissima to the 'painted chalet', with anthills, 6 May 2018 |
What's next? In mid-May, a sightseeing and castle-hopping trip to the Langhe area of the Piemonte, the beautiful hilly country south and southeast of the river Tanaro south of Torino, with visits to Alba, Saluzzo, Salvignano, Fossano, and Asti.
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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 29 December 2017, updated 7 August 2018.
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