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Sun Salutations

Before ascending the mountain – went to the torrent (7 in the morning) again – the Sun upon it

Byron’s Alpine Journey, September 18th-29th, 1816
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Posted on September 3, 2026September 3, 2026Categories Lausanne to RomeLeave a comment on Sun Salutations

A postcard home from Montreux


– went to Chillon through Scenery worthy of I know not whom –


Byron’s Alpine Journey, September 18th-29th, 1816
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Posted on September 2, 2026September 2, 2026Categories Lausanne to Rome7 Comments on A postcard home from Montreux

Le Grand Départ

In search of a beginning

Yvonne Cloetta, My life with Graham Greene
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Posted on September 1, 2026September 2, 2026Categories Lausanne to Rome10 Comments on Le Grand Départ

Process

Processio, Lat. ‘A marching forward’, ‘advance’

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Posted on August 28, 2026September 2, 2026Categories Lausanne to Rome23 Comments on Process

Right to Roam

In Scotland, landowners aren’t required to maintain a right of way, but they must not obstruct it and have a duty of care to people on their land. The “right to responsible access” means people aren’t necessarily restricted to paths and can walk across uncropped fields where no path exists.

Farmer’s Weekly
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Posted on August 28, 2025Categories North Coast 1306 Comments on Right to Roam

Elegy — the Processional

Sur la piste, vita

A sign I saw today as I came out of the final forest, and which I understood to mean ‘on the path, life’
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Posted on May 27, 2025August 23, 2026Categories Canterbury to Lausanne13 Comments on Elegy — the Processional

Penultimate

For architecture, among all the arts, is the one that most boldly tries to reproduce in its rhythm the order of the universe

Unberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
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Posted on May 26, 2025July 26, 2025Categories Canterbury to Lausanne2 Comments on Penultimate

Switzerland

Switzerland is a country […] where many things end

F Scott Fitzgerald
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Posted on May 25, 2025May 25, 2025Categories Canterbury to Lausanne2 Comments on Switzerland

Alpine

Or rather dost thou tread
Those cloudy summits thence to gaze
below, like the wild chamois

Thomas Hood
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Posted on May 24, 2025Categories Canterbury to Lausanne3 Comments on Alpine

Diversion (in which I clock up my thousandth kilometre)


Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest […] without diversion


Blaise Pascal
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Posted on May 23, 2025August 5, 2026Categories Canterbury to Lausanne9 Comments on Diversion (in which I clock up my thousandth kilometre)

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