Day three was my shortest hiking day (11.4 km / 7.1 mi), but it was important to me to not hike the entire suggested section but to stop in Lyme Regis to look for fossils. Ever since reading Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures in 2009, I have wanted to see the fossils for myself. The cliffs […]
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Jurassic Coast Path, Day 2
Day two started bright an early and I was very happy I was out early as it was an incredibly hot day. Not a breeze was felt from the sea and the air seemed to be stuck behind the hedgerows. Down one side of the coast and up the other. And again. And again for […]
Jurassic Coast Path, Day 1
Ever since taking the train down the coast from Exeter in 2017, it has been my wish to hike a part of the Jurassic Coast. I had planned to hike the path in 2020 with a friend, but then COVID came and instead I hiked the ViaRhenana. The idea never left my mind, and when […]
Postcard from Marseille
Marseille surprised me. All I ever heard was: don’t go there, it’s dangerous. But when I started to look into it, I read that the area around the old port had been cleaned up, there were interesting museums to visit and it wasn’t any more dangerous than other large cities. I was intrigued and looking […]