Category Archives: mountains, flowers, landscapes

Easy Walks No 5, in the Vallon de Nant

Posted on November 13, 2024 by jonathan trustram

Since I looked up the new exchange rate for the Swiss franc I hesitate to recommend a walk in Switzerland, but still, this is a fabulous walk and there’s a good story to it. You can get the Eurostar to … Continue reading →

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Into the past again, awkwardly: inside the tulip

Posted on October 23, 2024 by jonathan trustram

I’d never seen such a creature before, but I knew in a vague sort of way that something called a pollen beetle existed, and this has to be it. It could be a cue for thoughts of corruption and decay, … Continue reading →

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Cherry Hill, contested land

Posted on October 22, 2024 by jonathan trustram

To anonymous on the love ely facebook page: Cherry Hill is not quite farmland, not quite park, not quite ‘wild space.’ One half of it, separated by simple post and rail fencing which is easy to climb over, looks like … Continue reading →

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into the past again, naturally: the perfect tulip?

Posted on October 22, 2024 by jonathan trustram

Of course I don’t have a favourite flower, but this is it. In 2016, in April, at the end of a trip to Greece, I drove a long way round back towards the airport, though Parnon, or Parnonas, in the … Continue reading →

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Easy Pieces on Easy Mountains in Order of Easiness no 2, Falakro

Posted on January 3, 2024 by jonathan trustram

I know this isn’t a very helpful map. It shows the mountains which are visible from Pangaeo (see Easy Pieces on Easy Mountain Walks in order of easiness, No1, Pangaeo). I’ve written in Drama, a nice place to stay, between Falakro … Continue reading →

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moments in time

Posted on December 15, 2023 by jonathan trustram

Here’s a photograph I took in 2019 on Mount Olympus, at about 1900 metres, at the end of May. (It’s disappointingly fuzzy here, an imperfectly recovered memory.) Snow still lay in a few hollows and gullies, but spring had arrived, and … Continue reading →

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After the first frost in November

Posted on December 12, 2023 by jonathan trustram

It’s as if the subjects of the garden have been subjected to a citizenship test, a freeze and thaw torture which has exposed the illegals. The plectranthus now are scarecrows, cobweb grey; their dead tissues flop, inert, unless stirred by … Continue reading →

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Easy Pieces on Easy Mountain Walks in order of easiness, No1, Pangaeo

Posted on November 27, 2023 by jonathan trustram

Pangaeo, 29th of May, 2019. It lies in south east Greece. The mountain is basically a long, quite narrow ridge from east to west, with several undistinguished summits and views south over the Aegean. Its name means all the Aegean, … Continue reading →

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Hand baked from locally sourced ingredients No 8

Posted on November 26, 2023 by jonathan trustram

I’ve been told that going on about Thames Water is boring and I agree but what can I do – the other day I got up and opened the curtain and look: There they are again, making yet more improvements, … Continue reading →

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close to home

Posted on May 16, 2023 by jonathan trustram

I’ll just get this out of the way first – I’m not a moany old git all the time although the temptations and provocations are many – it’s an ad at the bus stop: What on earth does it mean? … Continue reading →

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