Category: environmentalism
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Day 42 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – A Few Minutes of Rain
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday at around lunchtime we had a few minutes of rain for the first time in weeks but it didn’t last long. By the time I went out for my daily walk the ground was dry, as if it hadn’t rained at all. There was no mud to walk through so I…
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Day 41 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – Reverse Journey
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I ran and then walked a reverse journey of what I did yesterday. I wanted to take a picture of the corkscrew tree. It would have required for me to wait for two slow walkers and their dog to pass and because they insisted on walking two abreast it made more…
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Day 40 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – Local Adventures
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor this 40th blog post on the topic of self-isolation, I’d like to speak about local adventures. I feel the need to do this because I see people posting about their trips to someone two to three hours from live and work during a pandemic and I strongly believe that getting into…
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Day 38 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – Contact Sports
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy May we may be able to go back to doing sports in groups as long as they are not “contact sports” in Switzerland. For me this means hiking, running cycling and other related sports. For me climbing is a contact sport because we touch the same hand holds as everyone else…
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Day 37 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – The Future, Or Uncertainty
Reading Time: 3 minutesI question whether we’re living in the future, or uncertainty during this pandemic. One friend on Facebook wrote that Coronavirus is making us live in the future because of a number of reasons, as listed in the embedded post below. If I am being myself then I would say that we’re living…
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Day 34 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – A Daily Bike Ride
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen the Pandemic was just starting I thought that this would be perfect for a daily bike ride and I was tempted to go to the mountains and to do other things. I didn’t though, because emergency services said “Don’t monopolise our resources getting injured because we may be required to help…
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Day 33 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – A video walk
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I went on a video walk with the DJI OSMO pocket three or whichever number it has and I took a series of frames. Before going for my daily walk I searched through the Vision Du Réel virtual Film Festival list of films and I found “The Bridge”. It’s available for…
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Day 32 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – A Single Tab Open
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have a single tab open in Chrome at the moment, my main browser. This window, to write this blog post. We are now in Day 32 of self-isolation and I’m keeping myself distracted through blogging, making webpages mobile friendly and more. I’m also limiting the time I spend on news websites,…
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Day Thirty-One of ORCA in Switzerland — Plenty of Dust
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou build up plenty of dust as you plow the fields at the moment. The drought continues, as does the desire for this pandemic to be over. For now, the downward trend continues so we could feel optimistic. I’m still optimistic than in two or three weeks recycling centres will go back…
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Day Thirty of ORCA in Switzerland — A Strong Desire to Go Hiking.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have a strong desire to go hiking. I would like to go on a hiking excursion that lasts for a few days. In theory I could do the Via Alpina route one starting in Nyon and ending in Lichtenstein. It’s a 21 step hike going north. I had lunch watching one…