Vincent van Walt's Travel Journal

Four countries in two weeks

29th April 2018

Admittedly two of them are pretty small and we barely grazed French territorial waters but when you travel at an average cruising speed of 6 knots (six nautical miles per hour) and you have 400 miles to...

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Sometimes I talk to trees

7th April 2018

Some are fascinated by clouds, others by mountains. I happen to like trees.

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Easter lazyness and indecision

1st April 2018

How did you spend your Easter week-end?

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Time and tide waits for no man

25th March 2018

As the clocks move forward I reflect on time.

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Daffodils in the Snow

18th March 2018

We're not used to snow. One flake can disrupt life for days. Several inches and one would think that we've been transponded to Siberia. The media can't get enough of it. We've had the beast from the east...

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vanwaltDataHub: A data-logger with power and flexibility

20th February 2018

I was instructed not to make this boring. As if!

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Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains

16th February 2018

Reece did not have a good opinion of Wales but then he'd never made it past Cardiff.

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Goodbye Varanasi and a train journey

10th February 2018

We are templed out, stupaed out, mausoleumed out, mosqued out.

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Buddhist Tranquillity

8th February 2018

An ancient Stupa is possibly neither a mausoleum nor a temple. Those Stupas were mostly completely solid structures. They did not contain burial chambers nor did they contain caskets of treasure. They...

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