Saint-Malo and Combourg, Britanny: « Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe » by François-René de Chateaubriand and « All the light we cannot see » by Anthony Doerr.

My first visit to Saint-Malo was when I was a Scout patrol leader. We began our three-day hike at Mont Saint-Michel. The leaders then set us an itinerary in Britanny Continue Reading →

From the Valsesia to the Valle d’Aosta in the Italian Alps: « The Eight Mountains » and « The Wild Boy » by Paolo Cognetti and « The Weight of the Butterfly » by Erri De Luca.

Four of us, dashing young fifty-somethings, set off with our backpacks up the Vogna river. Our wives accompanied us through the first part of the valley, walking from hamlet to Continue Reading →

Val d’Hérens, Valais, Switzerland: “Terror on the Mountain » and « Farinet ou la Fausse Monnaie » by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz and « Lost in the Alps » by Cosey.

Dare I confess to you one of my adolescent dreams? Her name is Evolena and, in Cosey’s comic strip “Lost in the Alps (A la recherche de Peter Pan)”, she’s Continue Reading →