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

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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
- Great article in the Oct. 9th, 2022 Sunday Telegraph By Sally Howard
- Back in Nelson BC!
Category: Western Front Way posts
Blog posts from the Western Front Way
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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…
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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…
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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…