Angus' Travel Notes and Pictures
A webpage of Angus' cycling trip in 2022 along the Western Front (1914-1918) and Angus and Alison's walking tour of the Tour de Mont Blanc, Via degli Dei, the Dobratsch Circuit in Carinthia, Austria, the Dolomites, Venice, and Iceland
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- Trail’s End
- Along Iceland’s South Coast
- The Beauty of Iceland
- Four Days in Venice
- Tre Cime di Lavaredo
- Lago di Braises and Cinque Torri
- A night out at 9500 feet
- Val Gardena and the Secëda Ridge
- Into the Südtirol; the beautiful Dolomites
- Grateful in Graz ❤️
- We ❤️ Salzburg
- Nötsch – Arnoldstein – Warmbad; a wrap on the Dobratsch
- To Villach, Austria and the Dobratsch Rundwanderweg
- Trieste, Italy
- Last Day in Florence
- Falling for Florence
- Trails end at Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze (Florence).
- Heart of Tuscany: Castello del Trebbio, olive groves, Monte Senario
- Cross of Monte Gazzaro – Sant’ Agata – San Piero A Sieve
- Beech forests and Roman roads
- Madonna dei Fornelli
- Sasso Marconi – Brento – Moduno: into the Apennines.
- Bologna to Sasso Marconi; first leg of the Via degli Dei
- Buongiorno from Bologna!
- Tre le Champ-La Flagere-Brevent and a TMB wrap
- Col de la Forclaz to Col de Balme: Switzerland into France
- Two days in the steep Swiss woods: La Fouly to Col de la Forclaz
- Courmayeur to La Fouly: Italy to Switzerland
- Elisabetta-Courmayeur-Bonatti
- From France to Italy over the Col de la Seigne
- Feet over the Cols
- Lunch in Les Contamines-Montjoie
- Chamonix campsite
- Now in Chamonix, France
- Leaving in the morning!
- A packing dry run
- Hello everyone!
- The book “The Path of Peace” by Sir Anthony Seldon launches November 1st, 2022
- Back in Nelson BC!
- Resting up in Bruges: one last post
Category: Western Front Way posts
Blog posts from the Western Front Way
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One aspect of the trip that I am also still struggling to fully comprehend is the long lasting impacts of war on our precious planet. I saw this years ago working with forestry faculty in the late 90s at Hue University in Central Vietnam and their efforts to restore the land and mountain forests (and…
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International day of Peace.. Left Ypres on the morning of Sept 21 with two brief stops at Tyne Cot with much significance to Australia, New Zealand and Canada (in addition to the British forces) and the battle of Passchendale. We also stopped at the German cemetery at Langmarck. We reached the sea and the end…
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Big kms (119!), impactful sites, moving ceremony to end the day.. It’s hard not to catch a sob in your throat when you first lay eyes on the Vimy Ridge memorial. In fact I didn’t catch it in time and let out a few…. I don’t think it is a national pride thing for me.…
Angus' Travel Notes and Pictures 