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Winter 2005-2006

Short breaks from poring over the newspapers as the Bushies implode

You may not find this tangibly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go. Click on pictures to proceed.

Winter 2005-2006 began in the autumn of 2005 and continued into the spring of 2006. Duh.

Kristin's visit, October 2005

Kristin's visit in October 2005: pleasant views of Dijon (left) and Besançon (right), France

Click on the human carrot to view Superman and the Blues Brothers in Dijon

Uganda: Ramsar COP9 in Kampala, November 2005

The 9th Conference of the Contracting Parties	The narrator with the translation teams
Uganda in town: views around Kampala	Uganda in the countryside
Watching birdwatchers at Mabamba Bay	The abandoned boats of Mabamba Bay

Uganda 2005
	Ramsar Conference of the Parties
	A quick look round Uganda -- the town
	A quick look round Uganda -- the country
	Birdwatcher-watching in Mabamba Bay
	Sunken boats of Uganda's swamps
	Anthills of Uganda
	Uganda visit in 2004

The Col de Faucille in mid-November, to lose Joe

A trip to selected venues in the USA, late November 2005

To Kristin's house in Brookline, Mass. (USA)

Jamaica Pond, Boston	Hike to the Blue Hills in Massachusetts
Harborside Inn in Newport, R.I. . . .	and walks along the capitalists' shoreline.
Rainy day in Jamestown & Narragansett, R.I.	Back in Brookline for exemplary dinners

Trip to carefully selected parts of the USA,
November 2005

Boston: Jamaica Pond, Blue Hills

Newport, Rhode Island

Jamestown, Narragansett, Galilee

Brookline and the Bosnian diner in Somerville

Le Sollier hikes, 10 & 11 December 2005

Kristin's Christmas visit to the Old Country

Three Christmas hikes in the Jura	The "Dick Cheney" look on an icy day
Dent de Vaulion, 30 December 2005	Mont de Bière Devant, 2 January 2006

January-March 2006: Reckless Snowshoeing

Chamois hunting in January	Mont Bally and Le Palud
The Hike of Four Huts, 29 January 2006	Farms of the Jura, 4 & 5 February 2006
Farms of the Jura, 11 & 12 February 2006	Farms of the Jura, 18 & 19 February 2006
More huts of the Jura, 25 & 26 February 2006	Grand Cunay, 5 March 2006
Not Mondion hikes, 11 & 12 March 2006	Mondion hike, 19 March 2006
A well-earned nap on Le Noirmont, 26 March 2006	. Pointe de Poêle Chaud, 2 April 2006

Kristin's visit, April 2006

Caves near Vallorbe

Romainmôtier

Devon and Cornwall, April 2006

Hikes on the Exmoor, Devon

Stranded in Berrynarbor

Botallack Manor in Cornwall

Coast Path: Botallack to Land's End

Coast Path: St Ives to Zennor

Coast Path: Levant Mine and Botallack

Mousehole, Land's End, Godolphin House

Pubcrawling in Devon and Cornwall, 2006

Berrynarbor and Porlock, Exmoor

Coast Path, Ilfracombe and Berrynarbor

Botallack Manor, Cornwall

Coast Path, Botallack to Land's End

Coast Path, St Ives to Zennor

Coast Path, Botallack to the Levant Mines

Mousehole, Land's End, Godolphin House

The future, always iffy

Unless something really really untoward should happen (like Cheney suddenly deciding that Switzerland might make an easier target than Iran), we should have more moments of joy and sorrow to post here soon, with (following some murderous meetings in late May) a journey set for mid-to-late June to some island off the coast of Newfoundland, to see how the black fly swarms are coping with Mr Bush's Global Warming -- then descending upon Vermont USA with everybody we know for daughter Marlowe's wedding thing -- then a visit from Kristin back to Switzerland for some alpine gallivanting -- and finally a late-summer visit from Alison taking a Swiss break from the daily hurly-burly of astrophysics. And not long after that, we can hope, the snow will be starting again.