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KING LUDWIG WAY – to the castles. | bowlandclimber
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KING LUDWIG WAY – to the castles. Trauchgau. – Fussen. Today I am walking to his famous castles – the family one he partially lived in, Hohenschwangau. And the one he fantasized about and brought into existence, Neuschwanstein. Neuschwanstein in the distance. On through Berghof to eventually find a KLW sign pointing down a lane through the delightful little farming hamlet of Greith…. Peaceful Greith – Maybe shouldn’t have taken this photo! It gets worse …. Some of the views were spectacular…. Marie bridg...
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September | 2014 | bowlandclimber
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Monthly Archives: September 2014. LE CHEMIN DE STEVENSON. DAY 12 – the last. St Etienne Vallee Francais — St. Jean du Gard. The usual French gite breakfast of coffee, bread and jam…. Our host was busy weeding in his crocus fields when we left to stroll down the road into St. Etienne V F itself. A busy little market village of narrow streets with a chateau above. The heat built up and you sensed the Med. getting closer. A steep path through some old houses brought us onto the busy main road. We caught our...
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January | 2015 | bowlandclimber
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Monthly Archives: January 2015. CHESHIRE RING WALK – Northern Section, day 3. Manchester City Centre – Marple. The freezing mist persisted. I was disappointed not to see much of the Etihad Stadium or the Velodrome and attached BMX course where one of my Grandsons would be trying to break something on his bike or himself. More people started appearing, mainly dog walkers, as we contoured high above the wooded Tame valley. Our lunch stop sat on a stone wall coincided with the start of a snow storm! Our tra...
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November | 2014 | bowlandclimber
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Monthly Archives: November 2014. A TOWER OF VICTORIAN STRENGTH. Baz [soon to be 70] phones –. What about a walk on Sunday? Yes, good idea and good forecast. Where shall we meet? Hmm Abbey Village, halfway point. Will sort out a route later. See you at 9.30am. We have had a lot of rain these last few days so I looked at the map for bridleways and ancient lanes, there are plenty in this area of Lancashire. Darwen Tower [the rocket! Was erected in 1898 to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee and...
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July | 2015 | bowlandclimber
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Monthly Archives: July 2015. KING LUDWIG WAY – no man’s land. Rottenbuch – Trauchgau. Most long-distance walks have a section just to get from A to B using the least painful way. On some previous routes I’ve cheated and hitched across dreary road sections. Today, with one exception didn’t promise much. Progress at first was slow and hesitant, little lanes going everywhere through traditional farming land. The signs and map didn’t agree, re-routing? This entry was posted in Art and architecture. Had such ...
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February | 2015 | bowlandclimber
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Monthly Archives: February 2015. The other listed walks can wait for suitable times and companions.Maybe I’ll find mine……. 8230;……….watch this space for more list ticking. This entry was posted in Canary Islands. And tagged Canary Islands. February 25, 2015. USING MY BUS PASS. This last week I was thwarted on my planned two day walk because I couldn’t face paying a pub 60 B&B! Anyway the weather was not brilliant. Bedford truck and a farmer’s unsightly silage pile. This entry was posted in Bowland Fells.
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RETURN TO WINDGATHER. | bowlandclimber
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Mark had never been so today we braved the late morning traffic and arrived to find nearly every parking spot taken. The weather has been so poor of late that the chance of a fine afternoon brought everyone out. There are always ‘groups’ in situ on the most popular buttresses and a scattering of boulderers and their mats completed the scene, but we soon found some free space. Of course it was very windy, it always is! Mark on Centre Route. The fine High Buttress Arête. Tackling the nose on Director.
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December | 2014 | bowlandclimber
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Monthly Archives: December 2014. LA GOMERA – Los Roques, up and over again. Our last day’s walking and we were blessed with clear and sunny weather. A lift up to Pastrana saved us 5k of road walking and we were straight into another barranco with all the usual variety, getting blasé now. This was no ordinary valley however as at its head nearly a 1000m above us was the Roque de Agando. It still took us nearly 3 hours of sweating to to pop out onto a road level with the gigantic rock. Productive garden pl...
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KING LUDWIG WAY – Fussen, just popping into Austria. | bowlandclimber
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KING LUDWIG WAY – Fussen, just popping into Austria. Fussen castle at night. Had a spare day in Fussen, a delightful but busy Bavarian town. The old medieval part of town is overlooked by the Hohes Schloss castle and has a delightful mixture of colourful Bavarian ‘town houses’. Fussen is known for lute and violin making and I passed a statue reflecting this. Time to escape into the hills. Ignoring the possibility of coffee at the lakeside gasthof I continued up the steep jeep track which brought me to th...
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May | 2015 | bowlandclimber
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Monthly Archives: May 2015. WEST CRAVEN WAY – Barnoldswick Thornton East Marton. The friendly people at The Fountain Inn produced a perfect breakfast for a walking day and I was away about 9. Rather grey start to the day. In the market square the stall holders were setting out their goods, mainly cheap clothing I’m afraid, but there was a fruit and veg stall from where I bought a couple of bananas. The next farm’s warning signs were all too accurate…. Weets Hill, Barnoldswick and Earby. Dodgson Lane foll...
