WALKS: MONTH #217
"taking many hikes in the alps with a beautiful sunny winter there walking first to my ark and then with the family up the novegno mount pulling livia and silvester up with the stroller later also taking a long walk with them and their mother making it down to the cemetery to visit our dear gianna and then around mount enna all the way to the homonym small town for a sandwich in the sun also walking with the family up to the summano cross and then visiting my mother and stepfather in my native highland and with them hiking up the former ekar ski resort where i used to go as a young kid and reaching the top with quite some snow once again pulling the sled and making it down on it with livia and silvester taking turns and back in our side of the alps visiting a dutch italian couple walking up to their village but also walking a bit in the city of schio and getting quite sick of the ugly and industrial suburbia all around it finding it very refreshing to be up in the mountains and taking a new hike this time from the village of san rocco walking down to some volcanic area and then up the very nice little highland with my children feeling free and strong in such a little paradise lastly making it back to the nethelrands only stopping in the too fancy city of bressanone walking through in the cold winter night to get something to eat and back in the nethelrands finding a very ugly wet weather nonetheless taking walks to the nature with my children even later when they got sick"
WALKS: MONTH #218
"keeping up my hunter-gatherer-like walking schedule making outside everyday taking more or less long rounds outside our dutch village and trying to get the children involved now that they got busier going to birthdays taking them individually along the river and across the fields despite the cold weather and the mud at one time also being left alone with myrthe taking the kids to her friend and going by train to bilthoven and making it through the forest all the way to zeist and later having no longer any work commitments investing a lot in silvester having him to cross amsterdam from the south station to the central station and later from the south station in utrecht all the way to the fort aan de klop up north beside also a walk around the small city of tiel and with both him and myrthe feeling sick taking little strong livia for a very lng walk along the old rhine starting from bunnik and then going all the way into utrecht central station"
WALKS: MONTH #219
"walking daily in and around our dutch village but also taking myrthe and the kids for a reviving walk in the natural reserve north of rhededn going through the dunes and into the virgin forest and with silvester taking a walk from the ugly suburbs of gorinchem into the cute medieval city also taking a walk with his grandfather and the whole family to a sanatorium along a river in breda before leaving wih the kids to italy and traveling across europe only to take a short walk with florian just north of mullheim and then stopping high up in the heart of switzeralnd to walk along a beautiful river surrounded by giant mountains covered in snow with both children feeling thrilled as well as me lastly making it in the toxic plateau of northern italy just spending some time in vicenza for a funeral crossing the city with the kids and then making it back up the mountains taking there a very nice walk all the way around mount enna and later also taking a walk with the children in a sculptural park in my native highland to see whether i should be doing something there"
WALKS: MONTH #220
"traveling with the kids on a slow train to rome and spending some frantic days in the capital to begin with feeling very cranky with our host taking up all my attention to them but then walking the three of us alone and checking all the usual tourist sites goign from the colosseum to piazza di spagna and up to villa borghese and then walking from the cirucs maximus all the way to the caius cestius pyramid and from there getting the metro to the very desolated fascist neighborhood of the eur later escaping the chaos of the city having a great time with he children alone in the pristine valleys with its aqueduct eventually crossing the caffarella valley and reaching the historical site of the via appia and back up north really taking it quite easy taking a little walk in vicenza with my uncle and then helping myrthe's oldest brother to install himself and his family in the house they bought in our village and then on our way back having myrthe to fly to us and taking a very nice walk with her and the kids on the beautiful garda lake going from the medieval city of lazise up to bardolino enjoying the early and quite warm spring finally returning to holland having to confront the gloomier weather there but nonetheless taking daily walks around our village with a period getting stuck after silvester fell hill"