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 Dwight Peck's personal website
Winter 2015-2016
Dispatches from way, way behind the lines in Switzerland
You may not find this terribly 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.
What with one thing and another, we haven't been able to romp in the snow very much at all this winter. We've found some good uses of our time anyway. Click on the photos to proceed
2015 was the hottest year on record. Let's see how 2016 goes.
Coming off an intangibly rewarding summer on hydrobikes (with Cousin Rob, above) in northern Wisconsin . . .
. . . we're home and ready for some scenic hiking, like at the Sanetschpass in the Alps above Sion, 1 October 2015.
Some odds and ends as we decompress from our travels and prepare for more
A walk up Mont Sâla, and more to the point, down it again, 4 October 2015 |
A walk down the Gorge du Chauderon to Montreux, 11 October 2015 |
A walk round Aigle, Switzerland, and its château, 16 October 2015 |
To Crêt de la Neuve amid scenes of forestry destruction, 21 October 2015 |
A lively Hallowe'en party down in the basement, 31 October 2015 |
Two weeks in Umbria in east-central Italy, November 2015
Urbino, November 2015 |
Piacenza on the way south, 11 November 2015 |
Based in Gubbio, Umbria, 13-21 November 2015 |
A day in Assisi, 16 November 2015 |
A hike up Monte Ingino above Gubbio, 17 November |
A day in Urbino in the Marche, 18 November 2015 |
A day in lovely Perugia in Umbria, 19 November 2015 |
Last day in Gubbio, 20 November 2015 |
Stocking up on Grignolino in Lu on the way home |
Autumn walks
First snow above the Col de la Givrine, 29 November |
The Chemin des Narcisses above Montreux, 6 December |
Pilgrimage to Fort Bard, December 2015
Medieval Bard in the Aosta region, 20 December 2015 |
Ivrea in the Piemonte region, 21 December 2015 |
The Galleria Sabauda, Turin, Italy, 22 December 2015 |
A good look round Fort Bard, 23 December 2015 |
Chasing after more castles . . . |
. . . unsuccessfully. |
January interval
Lake Geneva's Grand Canal, 1 January 2016 |
Snow day in Ollon, 16 January 2016 |
A fine day out in the Jura's Grande Rolat forest, 14 February 2016 |
Five days in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, February 2016
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An overnight stop in Settimo Vittone, 15 February 2016 |
Downtown Parma in the rain, 16 February 2016 |
The National Art Gallery of Parma, 17 February |
The Baptistery, & Correggio's Madonna in the Duomo |
General sightseeing, 18 February 2016 |
More churches, and the cittadella, 19 February 2016 |
Saturday street markets in Parma, 20 February |
And back over the Alps to home |
Post-Parma relaxations, March-April 2016
Les Grangettes nature reserve, Lake Geneva |
Circuit de Plantour & Château d'Aigle, 28 February |
Lost in the Bois de la Givrine, 6 March 2016 |
Lakeside walk to Montreux, 9 March 2016 |
Lost in the Bois de la Sauge, 20 March 2016 |
A late season walk to Mont de Bière, 10 April 2016 |
Le Noirmont in new snow, 1 May 2016 |
The Chemin des Narcisses above Montreux, 4 May |
Ten days in Sirmione, Verona, Vicenza, etc., northern Italy, May 2016
The Castello Scaligero, Sirmione, from our balcony |
The Castello di Masino, Piemonte, 10 May 2016 |
Based in Sirmione on Lago di Garda, 10-17 May |
Verona in the Veneto region, 12 May 2016 |
Vicenza in the Veneto, 14 May 2016 |
The Castello Scaligero, Soave |
The Castello Scaligero, Sirmione |
Mantua (Mantova), Lombardy, 15 May 2016 |
Sirmione sights, 16 May 2016 |
Vignale Monferrato, Piemonte, 17 May 2016 |
Casale Monferrato, Piemonte, 18 May 2016 |
What's Next?
A visit to Colmar, very soon, and then to the USA at midsummer for two months, friends and family in northern Wisconsin.
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