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The end of the trip can come quietly and pleasantly, but if you have just skipped some umpteen miles and your car still resides on the top of a 1500 foot climb, that is unlikely. People with pogo sticks for legs ar ancestors that lived on the rocky crags of the mountains can rise above these things, but if you have been lax and not kept up with your daily skipping practice you have had it. | The end of the trip can come quietly and pleasantly, but if you have just skipped some umpteen miles and your car still resides on the top of a 1500 foot climb, that is unlikely. People with pogo sticks for legs ar ancestors that lived on the rocky crags of the mountains can rise above these things, but if you have been lax and not kept up with your daily skipping practice you have had it. | ||
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- Irene Pridham. | - Irene Pridham. | ||
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Spring arrived at last in England, and as April started the sap rising in the trees so it started peoples' | Spring arrived at last in England, and as April started the sap rising in the trees so it started peoples' | ||
- | Returning to London where a series of farewell parties | + | |
- | side was a mass of colour as the tulips were out in all their glory. Unlike | + | Returning to London where a series of farewell parties |
- | Australia, Holland has an excess of water and the fields have small drainage canals, some 25 yards apart, cut through them and as the seasonal rain had preceded me, walking became a series of slushy Tasmanian type strides and a broadjump - | + | |
slushy- TTS and a BJ etc. etc. etc. - the accepted way of travelling. | slushy- TTS and a BJ etc. etc. etc. - the accepted way of travelling. | ||
- | Leaving Holland and Belgium behind I eventually reached Paris at 11 p m. and | + | |
- | spent the evening walking, not from bar-to-bar as you'd expect (although there were a few visited) but around Paris where the streetsseem | + | Leaving Holland and Belgium behind I eventually reached Paris at 11 pm and |
+ | spent the evening walking, not from bar-to-bar as you'd expect (although there were a few visited) but around Paris where the streets seem to be alive all night long. Ah, Springtime on the Seine, The Eifel Tower and The Champs | ||
I must admit this city certainly has something. (Boy, does some unprintable | I must admit this city certainly has something. (Boy, does some unprintable | ||
- | material come to mind here!) Seven days were spent wandering about the city, from the wonderful Art Galleries and Churches to the lowdives and markets, then, as arranged in London, met up with a mob of mild Aussies under the Arc de Triumph, then off to sunny Spain - San Sebastian - Madrid with its gory bullfights - Latin lover types and staring people | + | material come to mind here!) Seven days were spent wandering about the city, from the wonderful Art Galleries and Churches to the lowdives and markets, then, as arranged in London, met up with a mob of mild Aussies under the Arc de Triumph, then off to sunny Spain - San Sebastian - Madrid with its gory bullfights - Latin lover types and staring people |
- | farewell to the party who were heading south to Rome and Naples while I was heading north. After almost three weeks with non-bushwalker types who mart to see " | + | farewell to the party who were heading south to Rome and Naples while I was heading north. After almost three weeks with non-bushwalker types who want to see " |
- | Hired a car in Frieburg in the Black Forest area of Germany and did a much too quick ten day, never to be forgotten, circular tour through Bavaria - Austrian and Italian Alps - Switzerland, | + | |
+ | Hired a car in Frieburg in the Black Forest area of Germany and did a much too quick ten day, never to be forgotten, circular tour through Bavaria - Austrian and Italian Alps - Switzerland, | ||
(To be continued next month). | (To be continued next month). | ||
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