How time flies

Dwight Peck's personal Web site

General index

If you, like me and many of our betters, have found this site increasingly unnavigable, here's an index to the major parts of the maze. Click on the thumbnails to proceed.

Leysin, Switzerland

American College

American College of Switzerland

Leysin village & environs

Chalet Pollux

Kids

Alison

Deirdre Peck

Deirdre

Marlowe

Work

American College

American College of Switzerland

Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

American Library of Geneva

Ramsar COP8, Spain, 2002

Ramsar COP9, Uganda, 2005

COP10, South Korea, 2008

Various Travels

Travels Index

Tunisia 1981

Scotland 1983

Turkey 1987

Scotland 1985, 1988, 1990

New Mexico 1997

Québec on a bicycle, 2001

Vienna, Austria, 2003

Gran Paradiso, Italy, 2003

Devon & Cornwall 2003

Olympic NP, Washington, 2004

Devon & Cornwall 2004

Vanoise NP, France, 2005

Uganda's Mabamba Bay 2005

Newport, Rhode Island, 2005

Devon & Cornwall 2006

Newfoundland 2006

Rome, Italy, 2006

Cinque Terre, Italy, 2007

Northern Ireland 2007

Maine, USA, 2007

Corsica hikes 2007

Back to Rome 2008

Bernese Oberland 2008

Southwestern France 2008

Southwestern France 2009

Wisconsin, USA, 2009

Cornwall and Devon 2009

Northern Corsica 2009

Rome 2010

Georgia 2010

Venice region 2010

Wisconsin USA 2010

Naples and Amalfi coast 2010

Florence, Pisa, Mantova, 2011

Wisconsin USA 2011

Southern Italy 2011

Northern Italy 2011

Andalucia, Southern Spain 2011

Genova region, Italy, 2012

Chartres, Le Mans 2012

Wisconsin USA 2012

Toledo & Madrid 2012

 

Sicily 2012

A little background

Ten Mile Stare

Physiognomy: an essay on faces

Recent events

Winter 2011-2012 Summer 2012
Winter 2010-2011 Summer 2011
Winter 2009-2010
Summer 2010
Winter 2008-2009
Summer 2009
Winter 2007-2008
Summer 2008
Winter 2006-2007
Summer 2007
Winter 2005-2006
Summer 2006
Winter 2004-2005
Summer 2005
Winter 2003-2004
Summer 2004
Winter 2002-2003
Summer 2003
Winter 2001-2002
Summer 2002
Winter 2000-2001
Summer 2001

Much Better Than Average Places

 
Towns and Cities
 

Agrigento

Alcala la Real, Spain

Alhama de Granada, Spain

Altamura, Italy

Amalfi, Italy

Aosta, Italy

Bari, Italy

Barletta, Italy

Bassins, Switzerland

Bastia, Corsica, France

Bergamo, Italy

Besançon, France

Bucharest, Romania

Calvi, Corsica

Cannobio and Lago Maggiore

Capri, Italy

Carcassonne, France

Cefalù, Sicily

Chambéry, France

Changwon, South Korea

Chartres, France

Colmar, France

Conques, France

 

Córdoba, Spain

Corte, Corsica, France

Dijon, France

Erice, Sicily

Estavayer-le-Lac & Avenches

Exeter, UK

Féchy, Switzerland

Florence, Italy

Fribourg, Switzerland

Gandria, Switzerland

Genova, Italy

Granada, Spain

Istanbul, Turkey

Kobuleti, Georgia

Le Mans, France

Lecce, Italy

Lucerne, Switzerland

 

Lyon, France

 

Mantova, Italy

Matera, Italy

Mazara del Vallo, Sicily

Naples, Italy

Nyon, Switzerland

Ollon, Switzerland

Oradour-sur-Glane, France

Orange, France

Orta San Giulio, Italy

Ostuni, Italy

Otranto, Italy

Palermo, Sicily

Paris (Louvre)

Périgueux, France

Piazza Armerina, Sicily

Pisa, Italy

Prague, Czech Republic

Ragusa, Sicily, Italy

 

Ravello, Italy

 

Rocamadour, France

Romainmôtier, Switzerland

Rome, Italy

St-Prex, Switzerland

St Céré, France

Salers, France

Sarlat, France

Savona, Italy

Scicli, Sicily, Italy

Sestri Levante & Cinque Terre, Italy

Sevilla, Spain

Strasbourg, France

Syracuse Ortygia, Sicily

Thun, Switzerland

Toledo, Spain

Trani, Italy

Venice, Italy

Vers l'Eglise near Diablerets

Vienna & Durnstein, Austria

Wells, England

 

Yvoire, France

 
Castles
 

Alcalá la Real, Spain

Allaman, Switzerland

Château d'Anjony, France

Beynac, France

Bourdeilles, France

British castles

Carcassonne, Château Comtal

Cardiff Castle, Wales

 

Carimate, Italy

Castel del Monte, Italy

Castelnau, France

Castlenaud, France

Chillon, Switzerland

Alcázar, Córdoba, Spain

Corte, Corsica

Doe Castle, Donegal

Dunluce, Northern Ireland

Castello di Lombardia, Enna

Castello di Venre, Erice, Sicily

 

Fenelon, France

Fénis, Italy

 

Alcazaba, Granada, Spain

Grandson, Switzerland

Gruyères, Switzerland

Château de Joux, France

Château de Montal, France

Melfi, Italy

Nyon

Nyon, Switzerland

Otranto, Italy

Peyrepertuse, SW France

St Mawes, Cornwall

La Sarraz, Switzerland

Priamar Fortress, Savona

Sevilla, Alcázar

Spiez, Switzerland

Maniace Castle, Syracuse

Trani, Italy

Venosa, Italy

 

Château de la Vigne, France

Cabanes, Huts, and Berghotels

Cabane de Carroz

Chanrion

Iffigenalp

Cabane d'Orny

Plan Nevé

Cabane Rambert

Berghotel Rosenlaui

Pension Sonnenberg

Rifugio Vittorio Emanuele II

 

Wildhornhütte

 

 
Other
 

Grottes de Naye

Trient Glacier

Grottes de Vallorbe

Grotte à Chenuz

 

Col du Marchairuz

Mountain stuff

Index of photo essays of the Jura, the Préalps, and other mountains

Some long Alpine walks

The High Route à pied

Swiss Alpine Pass Route

A walk to Italy and back

Deirdre's cross-Suisse hike, 1982

 

Hikes in Gran Paradiso, 2003

Index of photos of snowcaving and camping in Switzerland

Index of snowshoeing pix

Extraordinary Features

Limestone holes of the Jura in winter

Holiday hilarity!

Tourist trains of Europe

Farms of the Jura in winter

Anthills of the Jura

Forest refuges of the Jura

Steamships of Lake Geneva

Running wherever

World records in relays of the previous century

Monster running routes in the Swiss Alps

Large stories

Castle-Come-Down

Castle-Come-Down

Faith & doubt in Elizabethan England

Derborence

Derborence

Back from the dead in 18th century Switzerland

Shorter stuff

Castle-Come-Down

Simpson at the Hunt

A little investigation from 1973

An American Grandfather (1976)

Castle-Come-Down

Two little poems

. . . also from 1973

Bibliography (Trail of Blood)

List of scholarly writings, mainly on the 16th century, some reprinted here.


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