Category Archives: walks

in the Peloponnese 3, Vaidenitsa

Posted on June 28, 2016 by jonathan trustram

   Torridon Since last summer I’ve trampled bracken in a couple of new places, in Torridon and in the Peloponnese. By the shore of Loch Torridon Aran, a crofter (and our landlord) has burnt off the heather scrub and some … Continue reading →

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Anavriti (in the Peloponnese again)

Posted on May 22, 2016 by jonathan trustram

    (My first visit to the village, in April) Anavriti lies at about 750 metres on the east side of the Taygetos mountains, which run north-south along the central of the three fingers of the southern Peloponnese. These sentences … Continue reading →

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in the Peloponnese

Posted on May 14, 2016 by jonathan trustram

This little picture shows the forest fires that burnt in the Peloponnese and near Athens in August 2007. Some of the plumes of smoke are a hundred miles long. I looked it up when I came back, after seeing miles … Continue reading →

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an easy climb to Crna Prst in July, 2014

Posted on February 7, 2016 by jonathan trustram

– made easier because I took a taxi from Stara Fuzina, beside the lake at Bohinj, up to the end of the road, just below the abandoned skiing station. I’m going to get some help to  put all this in … Continue reading →

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in the City, two

Posted on December 20, 2015 by jonathan trustram

It was good of Sir Christopher Wren to leave us churches. They are used now to decorate the new City. Incidentally, in spite of all the destruction of the blitz, more churches were destroyed to make way for the first … Continue reading →

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A longer walk

Posted on December 16, 2015 by jonathan trustram

Next day I walked back down through the forest to the valley. Before I left the big party of young Italians from an alpine club set out. Deterred from the long high walk they  had planned by the weather, they had … Continue reading →

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a short walk in the Velo Polje, Vodnikov Dom again

Posted on December 15, 2015 by jonathan trustram

I was thinking about different ways of seeing Cornwall (see ‘at Lamledra’), and then a strange place in Slovenia (see ‘at Vodnikov Dom’). If you don’t like plants, look away now. The time is early July. In fact it was … Continue reading →

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At Lamledra

Posted on December 8, 2015 by jonathan trustram

Here’s a link to the house website: http://lamledrahouse.co.uk/ see also:at Lamledra (2) lamledra 3  seductive sky above the Dodman Coming home from just about anywhere in Europe it’s easy to feel disappointed with our native flora. Orchids which are common in … Continue reading →

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Vodnikov Dom again, rare plants, rare places

Posted on December 8, 2014 by jonathan trustram

I got stuck. I got lost. I was trying to write about, or move towards writing about, certain perfect spots, mostly in the mountains, and trying not to use words like perfect, or magical, or secret, or timeless, or sacred … Continue reading →

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some more poppies

Posted on November 26, 2014 by jonathan trustram

This is Papaver rhaeticum, growing in the wide stony Morteratsch valley in the Engadine. Here a path follows the two kilometre, 130 year retreat of the glacier, and signs record the position of the tongue at ten year intervals.   … Continue reading →

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