Walking in Europe

A blog of 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

Category: Western Front Way posts

Blog posts from the Western Front Way

  • 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.…

  • 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.…

  • 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…