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WALKS: MONTH #041
"now that i have moved to a new place in the southern suburbs several were the walks checking out the neighbourhood in minus degrees with frozen landscape and especially walking down the center of the town by the river, not to mention some evening walking to buy some grocery in the middle of town and then go to the station where to visit my kid in the north of stockholm several times a week, including few weeks with no money and trying to walk as much as possible, avoiding the public transport and enjoying the polar weather, thus also walking very long along rivers and bridges to save a few crowns also while carrying presents to my kid like new skies and shoes, ending up at last in a conference in copenhagen where i took a pilgrimage to the mermaid crossing the whole town from the central station and back, then also visiting an art museum in the country and exploring the shore despite all the rain and humidity and finally with some colombian friends taking me for a walk to an anarchist island in the city"
WALKS: MONTH #042
"walking to catch a bus in the middle of the night crossing the industrial area where i live and then in italy having no money and walking from the bergamo airport to the station to then join jacek and walk him all around my parents' city of vicenza even up the hills at night and then in the dolomites on the high snow trying to reach some lakes but finally causing an avalanche and almost dying but then just simple walks also with my parents in my native highland down to asiago center and finally to krakow where despite my left knee hurting jacek took my on along pilgrimage to a monastery by the big river but also across hills with wild dogs and finally some walking in the sudetic small mountains in the czech republic and much walking in the latter part up and down and across krakow to comeback from the dentist in nowa hut and across desolated concentration camps coming back from a high school where i taught italian and then much walking to meet people and produce work for an upcoming exhibition including much getting lost in the city center with its surrounding looking pretty much the same and disorienting me"
WALKS: MONTH #043
"after all the walking during the winter holidays and in krakow where I was mostly going from meeting to meeting and considering the problem of my left knee i walked considerably less this month also because of the very cold weather and the flu but did manage to walk to do grocery for my kid and his mother on the mall along the railroad and took my kid a couple of times in the city mostly around a park where i used to take him when he was little but also did manage to walk at last on a beautiful day on a frozen lake and make it on top of a small mountain there"
WALKS: MONTH #044
"despite the winter being at its peak i started my major hiking experiencing once more with my left knee not bothering me so much and with all i have to seat or stand otherwise at work and on the metro then from the beginning i took a major walk from nearby the university across a frozen lake and many suburbs and forest and across another lake which brought me to a immigrant ugly suburb yet beautifully located and then many a walk otherwise with my kid from the north part of town where the commuter rail station is and to the south part where the station to my commuter rail is but also a nice walk with him to asmund's birthday discovering intuitively a very nice passage by the railroad to the south of town and then a beautiful panoramic path along the cost walking all along also in the evening with the snow fall and then also walking with august again for small different commissions with a rented car in outside shopping malls and back from the metro station to his mother's place from where at last with a first day of spring i have walked all the way back to the city for hours across the still frozen small and big lakes"
WALKS: MONTH #045
"quite much walking alone exploring the neighborhood in my now solitary weekends without my kid but also with him going back to my previous discoveries crossing the bridge to the opposite coasts and also walking with him still across the botanic garden still frozen lake and over a small mountain where i used to take him many years ago and through a cemetery and roads but then finally walking quite a lot in berlin to because of a conference and rebelling to the idea of seating walking a long way from the hostel to the house of culture and to the city but also through the nice tiergarten despite the harsh winter conditions"
WALKS: MONTH #046
"walking not so intensively but mostly in already two occasions with the stroller first in italy with my nephew and my twin sister to the park and then with myrthe around utrecht and a bit more in the suburbs by the water and despite that walking in the city with first jacek going from the south part of town to the center where he lives or walking around the river through a castle but nothing really too long feeling still a bit of pain in my knee and getting special shoes for it back in italy where i have been walking in the fields around a small town while waiting for them"
WALKS: MONTH #047
"incredibly a lot of walking first some bit in stockholm with davide but then all alone walking and re-exploring all directions of the great boston area starting from panagiotis' place in the middle of harvard and walking often down to my old mit campus in east cambridge and over to the places i used to explore with august as much as taking many of the walks i use to do with him also in new york walking over both brooklyn bridge and then in the evening with jason also down to manhattan and with jason also taking a nice walk in prospect park and alone aside from the usual broadway and despite the weather re-exploring central park through the wilderness feeling like a scotish exploring the highlands in search of the sound of a pipe"
WALKS: MONTH #048
"a huge amount of walking first much around stockholm with myrthe coming here for the first time and meeting august but also with a group of international students which i took around the old city and beyond around the big royal island taking also august and then also being in utrecht walking much with myrthe and even in amsterdam south also walking much in the middle of the summer night with the nordic light to get the train to the airport"
WALKS: MONTH #049
"walking a lot despite the coldish beginning of the summer and thoroughly exploring the city of madrid and toledo with my love myrthe but also with some of my relatives like my step sister giulia and my parents to then be back in stockholm for two weeks and again walking with august quite a lot particularly for saving the money of the commuter thus walking from distant stations to his mother's house but also together to the city covering many kilometers from one side to the other of the swedish capital and even in my suburbs walking together to a beach i found in the nature is left of the big harbour to then be with myrthe in the netherlands and do small walks also with my american old friend jason but particularly one alone along the river out in the suburbs of utrecht and then together again with myrthe in her native city of breda walking from her mother place to the empty city center and around and even with her mother who like walking and the families of her two brothers in a forest nearby where they grew up"
WALKS: MONTH #050
"in the netherlands strolling with myrthe around utrecht but also visiting the city of antwerp and doing quite some walking with her there to then go to england and feeling like escaping the conference sedentary environment going for a major walk very early morning managing to reach the city of coventry from the warwick campus and later walking in an afternoon through the magnificent english landscape and forest reaching the side of the precious town of kingsworth till finally spending a short weekend with myrthe and her relative taking minor walks in the countryside after major bike rides and walking again with august and her in the sea side of lignano through the modern tourist center and much on the beach even at night with the full moon"
WALKS: MONTH #051
"not walking so much from the beginning after being at the italian seaside in the modern town of lignano with my kid and just keeping this time back in the stockholm suburbs renovating but then having myrthe as a guest and doing quite some walking both in the countryside with the car after picking her up at the airport and here in sodertalje but also around stockholm with jacek and brett and then alone around the island of djursholm and back to their place to then continue our walks also with august in my native mountains climbing several places and walking also from my parents' place down to my native town of asiago despite my son being often a bit demotivated but at last going to the natural labyrinth of the castelloni and finding him most revived going up without a break"
WALKS: MONTH #052
"a lot of motion with the good weather but often by bike both here in the stockholm suburbs and in maastricht where i took a nice walk with myrthe all around the city but then also biked into belgium and took several small walks in the various places we were reaching and the same here biking around the area and then exploring on foot mostly forests often quite impracticable due to the damages of last year storm and walking also with august to the metro station from his place in the north of town and through the downtown but also with jacek and brett up a small mountain and in a natural reserve on the east of stockholm beside taking walks by myself in utrecht while myrthe was working"
WALKS: MONTH #053
"a lot of walking with the good weather biking to places and taking small walks like in a weekend with august and my old norwegian colleague asmund but then being quite blocked due to again an inflammation of my plantar fascia on my right foot and finding slowly a way to walk again by taping up my foot to support walking and talking rather extensive walks with myrthe in utrecht and amsterdam to then also walk a lot myself from nykoping to the airport and in berlin with myrthe again from the south to the north of the city but also all alone to the american spy tower station in and across the woods to some rich neighborhood and then again in tiergarten like this past winter but also taking a quite large walk in potsdam feeling really good and free of roaming from dusk to dawn trying to recover my sanity after all the brainwashing i get from work"
WALKS: MONTH #054
"not so much walking from the beginning after all the extensive walking in germany but at last ending up walking quite a bit trying to enjoy the autumn air and dropping august to the boy scout to walk myself from the university to stockholm and all around it but also taking a small walk with a polish colleague during conference as he also had to walk a lot for a disease that almost killed him and walking again in sweden with august and myrthe despite the weather but then finally finding a good weather in northern italy and walking a bit in treviso after landing and a lot in vicenza the two of us and in venice with my stepfather who got us quite lost and disoriented and visiting the art biennial there going into funny shapes outdoor from one pavilion to another and so also during a day spent in an amusement park in the netherlands going even in a labyrinth"
WALKS: MONTH #055
"a month characterized by not so much walking as the autumn has being a bit wet and i spent much time at home even though i did travel to the netherlands and i did manage there to take some nice walks first with august around utrecht and the to rotterdam taking a decent excursion by myself and later with sweet myrthe who joined me but then no other bigger walks were made other than a bit in the southern suburbs of stockholm and in stockholm with august and by myself but also with him on a nice day walking up a little cliff overlooking a lake"
WALKS: MONTH #056
"little walking resuming at full speed my activity at the university but also due to the unstable weather conditions and very little traveling aside for a visit to jacek in malmo with myrthe and august following him in his restless walk of the town to fulfill his gps walking project while i also had to take care of august and of filming so not really being able to concentrate and enjoy the walk and not really walking so much in stockholm again because of the winter stormy weather and the darkness but only waking once to reach august to the christmas market at his school"
WALKS: MONTH #057
"a lot of walking with the warm weather being in northern italy and exploring with both myrthe and later jacek and brett a lot of historical places like verona and venice and brescia and bergamo but also fabulous natural sights like the island of the iseo lake and some valleys and mountains below and around my native highland being very inviting with the sunny weather at times and then coming back to sweden and only walking to enjoy the arrival of the snow and to get some work related stress out but mostly stopping to walk and keeping indoor"
WALKS: MONTH #058
"walking mostly in the city of stockholm with the snow and myrthe over for a few weeks showing her around the different parts of town but also taking a walk with my old supervisor up the river where i used to walk with august and latter also taking longer walks with little myrthe to also go to the shopping center near my suburb and to pick up the japanese mats in a distant warehouse but being later incapable to carry them any further and at last doing small walks by myself around the university during the single one day of sun this also to avoid my old colleagues and at last coming to utrecht and walking to myrthe's place and out to a restaurant with jason"
WALKS: MONTH #059
"walking fairly enough particularly with august during his carnival holidays going far exploring a big natural reserve opposite to the harbour and also making new nice discoveries finding a little old village on a hill over sodertalje but also walking quite much with myrthe in the netherlands both at the beginning of the months when still in maastricht and the latter alone in eindhoven to then walk with her at the end of the month in utrecht and in a surrounding forest which we also reached biking as i did in sweden with august"
WALKS: MONTH #060
: walking with much now in malmo going with jacek to seminars and then quite a lot with a portughese philosopher i met at an opening and walking with him and his egyptina friend all around the city but then also biking a lot and latter exploring by feet the nice area around jarna and lastly doing quite some walking in sunny utrecht trying to get over the travelling and also with myrthe while starting to perceive a lot of worries about coming and leaving with me"
WALKS: MONTH #061
"quite a lot of walking with the starting of a nice spring combined from the beginning with a lot of biking to small forests that i explored on foot or to a camping site down in jarna with august but also taking a few walks in the peaceful karlstad where i had a course and then in vicenza where i visited my parents and particularly enjoyed wandering on the hills of monteviale where i once was painting for a whole summer walking also with francesco to the monte berico sanctuary after a little run but walking also quite a lot back in sodertalje with august going all the way across town and to the north part which i have never explored but only to end up to a mall with a print shop to later find a nice way back through the cemetery and the forest and also walking in stockholm with myrthe and asmund enjoying the nice spring weather and ending up in beautiful djursholm"
WALKS: MONTH #062
"a quite decent amount of walking this month initially biking and hiking in a natural reserve in sodertalje and then going to the west coast of sweden for a course and doing small hiking there with jacek reaching a beautiful lakein alingsas and joining a conference in amsterdam thereafter having to walk quite a long way from the station to the zoo but really enjoying it also doing little walking in utrecht but particularly taking a major walk from my university having forgotten my card to train in the gym and really feeling i needed to move after much video game making i managed to finally reach a small mountain and return along the tullinge lake but also walking a bit through stockholm going to an opening to meet mikael and the rest of the swedish artists gang"
WALKS: MONTH #063
"quite a lot of walking starting with my going around in utrecht also helping myrthe to go shopping beers and flowers for her birthday but also in the nice countryside of breda taking a walk out of a wedding and quite a lot of walking otherwise in stockholm and sodertalje during myrthe's visit walking to a museum in the north of the city and also walking in a nice small island and village in the south but also walking with august and exploring once again the farm village on top of sodertalje and around the lake to the botanic garden till at last biking a long way to a conference and loosing my drawing with the map"
WALKS: MONTH #064
"quite some walking despite all the biking did mostly to the department summer conference in a castle by the swedish coast where i have been exploring the surrounding and then in a swedish island with the boyscout following a transvestite scout through a trapper track and also walking with august in sodertalje to then leave for the netherlands and taking a major walk in the woods and fields behind a festival place where i have been camping with myrthe and her friends this to mostly reconstitute myself after all the rock music and later doing minor walks in utrecht where i also got a bike and in the little town i have been biking to in the mean time to at last end up making small walks with myrthe crossing maastricht after visiting her brother and in dordrecht walking a long distance with many bags and camping stuff from an info center to a ferry and then in the small islands of the natural reserve of biesbosch which we reached by canoe"
WALKS: MONTH #065
"a lot of summer walking at first with myrthe in utrecht reaching small villages by bike and then taking a walk there before going to northern italy with her and august and reaching nice town like feltre where we also attempted to hike up a mountain and later walking in vicenza and even in the countryside place of my old art history professor nearby venice prior going to the sea side and taking a long walk there going across the pineta and back on the beach and at last visiting the aquileia walking with myrthe and august along the roman ruins of the harbour and later visiting the beautiful city of grado spending later a weekend exploring ravenna and mantua despite the rain"
WALKS: MONTH #066
"taking a small walk to begin with biking down to a lake in sodertalje and walking around finally keeping alone after a whole summer with myrthe and august and then walking during myrthe's visit despite having both to work but taking small breaks to go downtown and also walking a bit in stockholm but mostly by myself really enjoying to cross the entire city and later exploring the djursholm island away from the tourists and at last also taking a decent walk from my university out in the natural surrounding"
WALKS: MONTH #067
"quite some walking this month feeling to take a break from the much seating and writing and taking august to a station in the north of the city by his mother's house and walking along way from there back in the city despite the weather and also walking several time north of the city to put up a small exhibition with my t-shirts as well as walking with august back in sodertalje to at last going down to italy for francesco's wedding and doing some walking there with myrthe following a bit of the pilgrimage route to the saint anthony church and walking quite much in my parents' city of vicenza as well as during a day in milan with myrthe at last walking through the entire city to finally take a very nice and quite long walk on the hills in the sun and surrounded by beautiful views despite the fog"
WALKS: MONTH #068
"a month of intense walking aside form back problems started in my trip to the netherlands where i walked both alone and with myrthe in utrecht but also went with her father and girlfriend to gent mostly following them around and at last also walking a bit in breda prior going to italy and exploring the east side of the iseo lake looking for a land to buy and making long stretches also from sale marasino where i stayed and sulzano where the agent was walking both an ancient roman road on the hills and the trafficked road by the water to at last come back to sweden and take small nice walks with august particularly in the anthroposophic center of jarna and at last taking a long walk alone in gothenburg but also with myrthe walking particularly close to the nice area of jarntorget prior going back to stockholm where i bought a van to sleep and work on my italian land but that i also plan to use to explore the surrounding and drive to august without having to walk too much through the city"
WALKS: MONTH #069
"quite some walking this month now that i drove my van down to the netherlands with myrthe taking minor walks in small german towns and bremen but also in zwolle and lastly visiting the ugly city of den haag as well as the cute city of delft and just walking a lot in utrecht mostly to park the car without paying before at last coming back to sweden and having august for quite some time and doing quite some walking with him particularly in sodertalje and quite a lot also in his island but mostly to do grocery and take the metro without the proper ticket as i used to do when i had little money"
WALKS: MONTH #070
"quite a lot of walking to begin with following my stepfather in venice and getting quite disoriented of all is intricate paths but then finally feeling more oriented walking alone and later doing a lot of small walks to check different lands to buy shortly next to iseo lake finding the terrain to steep and then north west of my parents city of vicenza where all my ancestors are approximately from and also doing a bit of walking in vicenza itself and brescia waiting for the airport bus to take me back to sweden where i did some walking with august despite the weather but also a bit walking in the netherlands and particularly in utrecht going up and down to different print shops to prepare a show for dublin"
WALKS: MONTH #071
"a month of little walking done mostly in utrecht and also a bit in the city of nijmegen but also a bit while in sweden walking through stockholm and with august in his island to do grocery and in sodertalje during christmas where i also walked a long way with an heavy bag to the train station to reach myrthe for christmas day walking a bit in belgium with her and later in maastricht on our way to church"
WALKS: MONTH #072
"not so much walking to begin with due to the northern european weather but then driving with myrthe to our new mountain cottage in italy and walking quite a bit in the city of trento to then also visit my parents in asiago and taking a longer walk there and even trying to walk up the novegno mountain behind our place but don't really managing till at last having a swedish artist friend coming over and with him doing a lot of walking up also very much improvised up and down the mountains and even through the pasubio galleries till at last going back to sweden and doing a little walking with august in the gray sodertalje prior visiting myrthe and talking nice small walk both in utrecht and later in maastricht also walking a bit with his brother on the hills"