Travel with Big Red

Spring returns! (26 - 27 March 2009)

Reluctantly we tore ourselves away from Misurina for a final treat - a couple of days in springtime Venice.   More...

Snow, snow and yet more snow! (20 - 25 March 2009)

Thus began a magical week of sunshine, blue skies, sparkling snow and good company.  More...

From Spring to Winter in a train journey! (18 - 19 March 2009)

News of extraordinary amounts of snow in the Alps and Dolomites this year had us yearning to see Misurina in her winter glory - so in March we boarded a plane to Venice and went to see the magically-transformed mountains for ourselves! This time Big Red had to stay behind!

Venice was basking in sunshine and 25C as we boarded our train to Calalzo in the Cadore valley. Down on the plain the cherry trees were blossoming and the railway embankments were starred with primroses, violets and bluebells. As the train took us higher into the mountain valleys, snow replaced spring flowers and we began to catch glimpses of distant snow covered peaks.
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The Sikkim Himalaya (19 February 2007)

Seeing Kangchenjunga 21 October to 12 November 2006

The Himalayan walk
A long meditation
One step after another
Every step sparkling silver
Nuggets of gold strew the path
Silver and copper gleams in the rocks and stones



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