I have claimed in the past that Belgium doesn’t have any mountains. That is true, objectively speaking, but not necessarily if you ask a Belgian. French-speaking Belgians indiscriminately include ‘mont’ as either prefix or suffix to the name of places that decidedly are flat. The Flemish are equally liberal in their use of ‘daal’ and […]
Det er ikkje eit skikkeleg år om eg ikkje har vore inn på Fagredalsreset og sett utover Fagredalen, Blådalen og Måsedalen. Då frende Ove var på (relativt) sørlege breddegrader for nokre dagar, nytta vi høvet til å ta ein tur på Granekupa for å fiske – og meditere over nok eit år utan at vi […]
View from the ascent to Scafell Pike from Wasdale, overlooking Wastwater and the Cumbrian coast on the horizon. This years fishing trip was destined for the Cumbrian mountains in North-Western England, making it the third of our fishing trips abroad, succeeding trips to the highlands of Scotland and to Connemara in Western Ireland. The original […]
Leisurely, long-necked giraffes on the backdrop of a vast mountain, rising steeply from the flat steppe up and into the very clouds, not content to stop there, but re-emerging well above the clouds with its snowy-clad top; the East-African postcard of Mount Kilimanjaro was all we had in mind when we set out from home. […]
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