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Continue reading →: Islands around BergenA short spell of unseasonably warm weather arrived yesterday. Until then there had been the sort of wind blowing from off the sea that could be expected, bringing the temperature down a few degrees with it. But a warm front came through and with it the wind direction changed, to…
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Continue reading →: Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin
translated from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins Nathalie, a twenty two year old French graduate in fashion design has landed a short-term contract to design costumes for an upcoming and new Russian high bar trapeze act who are training and planning to premiere at a circus festival competition in…
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Continue reading →: The Prey by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb I last read Sigurdardottir more than 4 years ago. I have read six of her books, and enjoyed most of them, particularly the ones with an element of the supernatural, I Remember You and The Silence of the Sea, most notably. I stopped…
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Continue reading →: On the Stord Island RidgeStord Island is dominated by a short mountain range running north south for about 8 kilometres. I am stopped up at one of the two hikers’ car parks, at 380 metres, with views down over the fjords, Leirvik town, and the mainland, so looking eastwards. Roja and I took on…
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Continue reading →: To Stord IslandWe spent the later part of the morning on Ogna beach, the next one along from Sirevåg to the west. It is a rocky headland with small sheltered areas of sandy beach, good for swimming in the little channels formed, as Roja will testify. The strong southeasterly wind had eased…
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Continue reading →: The Devil in Kansas: 3 Stories for the Screen by David Ohle
I read Motorman a few years back and really enjoyed it, but it’s taken me a while to get back to Ohle. It might be that he isn’t as popular in Europe, I notice that none of my GR community has read him. He is very much my sort of…
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Continue reading →: Back to NorwayIt’s great to be back in Norway. It’s my sixth trip here (I think.. the first hitchhiking to North Cape from Bergen in 1988 on my way without planes to Melbourne, twice leading MTB courses with school from Lytham, then flying into Tromso and bikepacking back in 2016, then returning…
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Continue reading →: Dumplings of the Danish AlpsA couple of small victories in the last few days. I was able to put on the right sock on Wednesday morning, and that was followed on Friday by the running shoe. Over the last five weeks, since my surgery, I have been walking in my Keen sandals, which are…
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Continue reading →: Cannibals by Shin’ya Tanaka
translated from the Japanese by Kalau Almony This is a dark short novel that relates the coming of age of 17 year old Toma as he tries to avoid the fate of becoming like his abusive father. He lives in a hot and unpleasantly humid village by a polluted river…
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Continue reading →: Forests of Northern Europe..a few to add to the collection. Day 5.. Though the first conundrum of the day was fitting the hundred Belgian beers into the van in such places were they would sit snuggly. It may seem a lot, but they are, in theory at least, to last 4 months. I’ve…
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SafeReturnDoubtful is my alias. Rua is my fox red labrador pup, born 14 Feb 2026 and learning fast..
Where is Rua?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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