Adventures beyond the front door
A ghostly photograph found in our collection took us back to a winter visit to Gdańsk and the night we arrived in the Polish city by train from Berlin. How you arrive in a city, and especially the time of year or day, can certainly have a big impact on your first impressions of a… Continue reading Postcard from The Winding Trail 07: Gdańsk
On Christmas Eve, twelve months ago, we headed out from the small house overlooking the Atlantic and drove up onto the ridge that makes up the interior of São Jorge island, a landscape of fields divided by volcanic rock walls and the grassy cones of the volcanoes looped by dirt red tracks. We were hoping… Continue reading From the stormy sea to the winding trail
A few weeks ago we headed out from Berlin to explore the salt marshes and tidal estuaries of Germany's North Sea coast. On the way we crossed the Kiel Canal, and discovered the Rendsburg railway bridge, an architectural marvel that dominated the landscape and became the subject for our latest Postcard from The Winding Trail,… Continue reading Postcard from The Winding Trail 06: Rendsburg
On a lazy Sunday morning here in Berlin we've just sent out our latest Postcard from The Winding Trail and this time we are staying close to home as the subject is walking out from our apartment and the joys of exploring familiar places. Our postcards are an irregular email newsletter including original writing as… Continue reading Postcard from The Winding Trail 05: Berlin
We've just this minute sent out our latest Postcard from The Winding Trail, our irregular email newsletter which includes original stories from our travels – this time around from the Danube Island in Vienna – as well as a round-up of everything we've been up to here on the site and a collection of things… Continue reading Postcard from The Winding Trail 04: Vienna
We just sent out our latest Postcard from The Winding Trail. These are our irregular email newsletters that include original stories from our trips, a round-up of everything we've recently posted on the site (which, seeing as you are reading this, you probably already know), as well as a collection of books we've been reading,… Continue reading Postcard from The Winding Trail 03: Lausanne
If you live in Germany or are planning a trip to our home country this summer, you can take advantage of this special monthly pass that has been introduced by the government to encourage public transport use and ease the impact of inflation and the rise in energy prices. For June, July, and August you… Continue reading Germany’s 9-Euro Ticket and Outdoor Adventures
“I may be a wage slave on Monday / But I am a free man on Sunday.”The Manchester Rambler – Ewan MacColl As anyone who has read the wonderful Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit will have realised that the story of wanderers, hikers, trekkers and strollers is filled with tales of trespass,… Continue reading 90th Anniversary of the Kinder Trespass
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