Where are your favourite walks?

[MusicTurner]

Troense is the island's minute capital, unusually picturesque, placed slightly above a tiny bay harbour, with views across the strait to Funen and another island, Thurø. There is a grocery store with voluntary staff and local delicacies. Also a few accommodation places, including a small hotel. But it's just a couple of km to a hub with a few supermarkets etc., by the Funen bridge.

Greenery hasn't really set in yet. A few blue anemones, snowdrops and forsythias ... Birds were busy on the island, including wood-peckers, ducks, swans, and many pheasants.

[vandermolen]

Looks like a lovely day out Jeffrey.

By the way, are the walks designed to be from one pub to another? 

PD

They are basically circular walks PD rather than a 'pub crawl'  . Often, however, you do come across other pubs en-route.

[vandermolen]

Took an early Springtime weekend trip to the island of Tåsinge, connected by a bridge to Funen. Did a few hikes, 8 and 6 km, while my mother went to a nearby art school.

There's a famous, 425 years old oak tree, below which the 18th-century poet Ambrosius Stub would sit for inspiration. Cf. photo below. Just across the road, a cottage sold a bit of stuff for the passing tourists, including blue and yellow garden plants, where the money went to humanitarian help in Ukraine.

In the nearby forest, Nørreskoven, Elvira Madigan and Sixten Sparre were found dead. There's now a commemorative stone there.

The weather was fine and the sea had beautiful blue and silvery colours.

Very nice photos. I can hear Nielsen's music in my head! 

[MusicTurner]

Thank you, and nice to see the natural beauty of Springtime you've been blessed with already for a while, also arriving here ... .

[vandermolen]

Thank you, and nice to see the natural beauty of Springtime you've been blessed with already for a while, also arriving here ... .

We were lucky on that day. It's now overcast with snow predicted later in the week!

[MusicTurner]

... a bit like the new forecasts here. Hoping for round-the-clock warmth at least from mid-april ...

[krummholz]

Troense is the island's minute capital, unusually picturesque, placed slightly above a tiny bay harbour, with views across the strait to Funen and another island, Thurø. There is a grocery store with voluntary staff and local delicacies. Also a few accommodation places, including a small hotel. But it's just a couple of km to a hub with a few supermarkets etc., by the Funen bridge.

Greenery hasn't really set in yet. A few blue anemones, snowdrops and forsythias ... Birds were busy on the island, including wood-peckers, ducks, swans, and many pheasants.

The fact that you have ANY wildflowers at all in bloom is very uplifting! Here we are several hundred kms south of you in latitude, yet there is still patchy snow on the ground, and we have yet to see the new year's growth. There is not even a sign yet of the lawns starting to green. The Gulf Stream's influence in western Europe never ceases to impress me!

[MusicTurner]

It's a nice feature here - and even more impressive in Northern Norway/Lofoten (around 1700 km northwards from here, where you can swim in summer) and the Northern British Isles, generally blessed with a similarly mild coast climate. I'd like to visit some of the famous Scottish gardens in that respect.

[Rosalba]

Probably round the bar walls in York:

[vandermolen]

Probably round the bar walls in York:

Very nice!

[MusicTurner]

Back from an 8-day trip to the Czech Republic, the last 1.5 days in Prague, where the IMO classic, and also introductory, walk is that from the Castle/Petrin Hill, starting at

1) the paths by the Strahov Monastery, where you'll have a splendid view of the city, with most of the famous buildings and landmarks, as well as the mighty Vltava River (=Moldau) and its bridges. Then downhill via the Uvoz Street (with a tiny Josef Sudek gallery, associated with the famous photographer) to the

2) Nerudova Street, consisting only of magnificent, historical palaces and a few churches, with countless shops and eateries; alas, the cars now also take up quite some space too. Then you gradually walk down to the famous

3) Charles Bridge, from where you can look back up on the Castle and Petrin hills, including the main cathedral. And enjoy the river scenery, also with the loud cascades from the dams across it, and for example identify

4) the Smetana Museum (building by the river to the right) and the National Theatre a bit further away on the riverside (not on the photo), which has seen the premiere of many important, musical works and operas.

From there, you continue along the now very touristy walking streets to the Tyn Church with its associated square and, among other things, the famous astronomical clock, but this time I stopped at the Charles Bridge, partly because I was staying at a hotel not so far from Strahov, and chose to focus on that side of the river valley in Prague.

[MusicTurner]

Staying mostly in the town of Tabor, with a single room in an almost ruinous hostel run by a senior, Californian emigre punk-musician, I found that place a bit disappointing, but also made an excursion to lovely, nearby Bechyne by train, where there were wonderful walks along the Luznice river, below the local castle and several, cliff-hanging churches. Provincial, Czech townscapes and valleys at their best ...

[vandermolen]

Great photos - I have happy memories of Prague.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Great photos - I have happy memories of Prague.

Cool!  I'm envious of you!

Did you visit any record stores and pick up some Supraphon LPs...or CDs whilst you were there?

PD

[vandermolen]

Cool!  I'm envious of you!

Did you visit any record stores and pick up some Supraphon LPs...or CDs whilst you were there?

PD

No such luck PD - it was only a long weekend visit. I did, however, bring back some LPs from 'Melodiya' on Nevsky Prospect in Leningrad (as it was then called) on my trip to the USSR over New Year 1985. I don't think that I'll be back there anytime soon.

Today my wife and I did a nice walk over Hindover Hill ('High and Over') on the South Downs in Sussex. From high up you get a nice view of Cuckmere Haven estuary leading out to the sea. I also took a photo of the hill from the valley bottom - you may just be able to see the 'Litlington White Horse' at the top left.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litlington_White_Horse

My wife cannot walk at my slow pace so she is always miles ahead of me, but fortunately we are able to keep in touch by mobile phone ('WHERE ARE YOU?')

[steve ridgway]

Very nice, we have been staying fairly close to home, away from Bank Holiday traffic.

[MusicTurner]

Not really a walk, simply a short stroll from the parking site, but a weekend trip in Sweden during a heat wave, to the Blekinge region, once Danish, included these beautiful views of the Lake Orlunden.
From a rock called Valhalla.

It's about 200 km from Copenhagen, but already gives a glimpse of the huge, forested landscapes in Northern Scandinavia.

The lake provided a fine little beach with nice facilities too, so a lovely swim there, during 30 C.

Second trip abroad in almost 2 1/2 years of corona, the first being in April, to the Czech Republic.

[steve ridgway]

Beautiful scenery MusicTurner. We're going to Wales in a couple of weeks and would rather it wasn't quite that hot.

[MusicTurner]

That sounds nice. Any special 'targets' for you there? Unfortunately, I haven't been there myself.

[steve ridgway]

My wife just picked the first rental property that allowed three dogs so I'll just study the maps and look for public footpaths through woods, beaches etc.