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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September 19th was a shorter distance (about 65kms) from Peronne to Bucqouy where we began a journey through an area known as the Somme. This is gently rolling terrain where the Western Front changed position back and forth over a number of years and involved British, Commonwealth, and German soldiers in the hundreds of thousands.…
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A little bit of everything! Thank you to Tam and Tony for shuttling a few of us back to the WFW route at Laffaux from our night in the very beautiful medieval city of Laon. We had cool morning temperatures (7 degrees C!) on the open paths toward Terny Sorny, then worked our way through…
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A new challenge: headwinds! September 17…. Sommepy Tahure through Reims and along the Chemins des Dames and WNW to Laffaux. Chillier today with Autumn in the air. A relentless and blustery headwind challenged our progress of 116 kms, but it was a lovely ride along the Canal de l’Aisne a Marne and then up along…
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