Tag Archives: walk I fell in love with Crete. Greece’s southernmost district, Crete is the country’s largest and most populous island. Nestled between the Aegean and Libyan Seas, it is home to a magnificent coastline and beautiful beaches (eg: Preveli Beach). Populated since time immemorial, there is evidence of human settlement as early as 130,000 years ago. Buildings […]  Pictures don’t do it justice! There is nothing like being in the Himalaya with magnificent jagged snow-capped peaks rising all around. The rarified spring air, thinned by the altitude (3210 m), and the effort involved in the steep, 1.4 km hike up the hill from Ghorepani in the dark, only add to the feeling of […]  I think the forests of British Columbia (BC), Canada must be my Spirit Home. It was my first time to the north end of Vancouver Island, at the very west of Canada, but I felt right at home! I was on a BC road trip, and was booked to take the long ferry trip north […]  I’m very lucky: I live in a region with a magnificent coastline, lined with national and civic parks which are criss-crossed by walking trails. Even so, I have to be reminded to get out of my own immediate back yard from time to time! That is why I am so pleased that my local branch […]  “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance They say that getting there is half the fun and that the journey is more important than the destination. That may well be true, but it helps to keep the destination in mind when you need the motivation to keep going on a […] |
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