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

  • Sept 15..Ok…today was a big day: 136kms and just over 600 kms since pushing off from Zurich. A big day but fabulous: the very moving American memorial at Montsec, the preserved destroyed village at Remenauville, and the preserved trenches in the Boit Brule and Boit D’Ally. I’ll have more pictures to add and more descriptions…

  • Up early this morning for the 90 km ride to the Verdun area. It’s raining, so I’ve had an extra “cafe crème”! Yesterday was a shorter ride of about 60 km from Luneville (in the old Duchy of Lorraine palace city) through the larger city of Nancy (which we skirted) and onward for a late…

  • Longer post about September 13…up early to a picnic breakfast of amazing pastries and great coffee across from the hotel and along the banks of the Meurthe River.We were joined by local cycling enthusiasts, Marie Francois, Denis and Yves (also a history buff!). An initial climb out of the town to the north east brought…