I've loved spending so much time in the mountains recently. My left knee, however, has not had as much fun. My plans for the next few days (another hike) had to change. If I can't hike in the mountains, I can go to the spa in the mountains.
Hiking across Vaud on the Swiss Via Alpina, from L'Etivaz - Rossinière - Rochers de Naye - Montreux
This three-day hike has completely changed my idea of Montreux, by finding out what's around it and above it. Beautiful mountains aren't just in the Berner Oberland, after all.
Wild swimming in Switzerland's River Aare every week through winter
For about fifteen years, I hated water. I hated being near it and especially being in it. That's changed a lot in the last year, starting in Svalbard and continuing in Switzerland throughout the winter.
My year in books: A few favourites from 2017
2018: 41 books, 11,211 pages. “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” ― W. Somerset Maugham
Climbing Mount Toubkal, the highest summit of North Africa at 4167m
Morocco had been mentioned to me over the last few years by so many different people; I kept hearing how despite being so close, it's an entirely different world. And there's sun. I'd also been following Jenny Tough's 861km run across the Atlas Mountains.
