Quick #tutorial to get back physical fitness after a lengthy period of illness.
1.) pick up #Brompton folding bike from the folding bike hire machine*
2.) do some stupid sh*t
3.) enjoy a break drinking #filtercoffee and eating several pain au chocolats
4.) reconsider life choices when the navigation instructs you to enter the slip road: just like that, you’re merrily cycling on the highway, gotta go faster!**
5.) survive and walk off all the cortisol

This was #fun but also a massive #sensoryoverload

* it’s a thing and it’s mesmerizing
** apparently there are rather dodgy but legal bike lanes on UK highways

Après-ski walk in Grainau a few winters ago. I used the very last moments of the snowy season to fool around in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, spending a weekend walking, skiing, and daydreaming.

This is Waxenstein towering over the village, playing peekaboo through a cloud illuminated by the sharp rays of a rapidly setting sun.

#winterwalk #walkstodon #APhotoADay #germany #bavaria #winter #landscape #landscapephotography #mountains #walking

This from the archives.

On my long walk through Scandinavia in 2019 I crossed the Swedish High Coast, following the Höga Kusten #Trail through the national park in sweltering heat.

This was a particularly hot afternoon and the sea was dazzling as I descended from the ethereal pond at Balesudden to Köpmanholmen. I stopped to admire the islets and the diamond sea, and accidentally reenacted that #caspardavidfriedrich painting, too.

#SwedishSummer #Scandinavia #vintagelens #HögaKusten #longwalk #landscape #landscapephotography #hiking

The Bannau Brycheiniog National Park is always a good idea.

I spent a weekend discovering Brecon and embarking on somewhat easier recovery walks, like this quick loop from the village up to the Craig Cwm Cynwyn through The Long Gap and back — a very even, broad, gentle trail leading to a rocky saddle between Fan y Big and Cribyn.

Very hazy and summery, it was a blissfully warm day without my usual madness (so no bogs, moors, river crossings or ancient and overgrown trails leading to nowhere).

#Wales #ShortWalk #landscape #vintagelens #hiking #landscapephotography #walkstodon

“And the fact that I don’t have any close people to discuss ideas with because I have to wait until someone wakes up in London, or the United States. I don’t have any kind of collegiate thing happening at home. Everything has to happen on Zoom, and that’s exhausting.”

— found this in the brilliant article paying tribute to Judy Singer who coined the term #neurodiversity
I can absolutely relate to this sentiment of a seemingly always-on digital existence. No matter how fun or important, it’s exhausting. But how to achieve the balance between solitude and digital and in-person connections, really? #askingforafriend

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/05/the-mother-of-neurodiversity-how-judy-singer-changed-the-world