Sep – Oct 2022

TMB then Spain and Portugal

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September 1, 2022
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- Day 2
- Friday, September 2, 2022 at 3:32 PM
- ☁️ 26 °C
- Altitude: 408 m
- Switzerland Musée Barbier-Mueller 46.201401, 6.145746°12’5” N 6°8’45” E
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Mollymook to Geneva
September 2, 2022 in Switzerland ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Leaving Mollymook and driving to Sydney to fly out added many hours to our normal travel time but we were excited. Explored the old town and lakefront.
Traveler Nice photos Lisa, I can see two very happy people all be it tired ones. Another world isn’t it? Enjoy ❤️
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TravelerYes those flamingo lamps are something else
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- Day 4
- Sunday, September 4, 2022 at 1:32 PM
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Altitude: 3,688 m
- France Aigu du Midi Building 45.879082, 6.88671745°52’45” N 6°53’12” E
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Chamonix
September 4, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Gorgeous ski town. Took the cable car the Aiguille de Midi up to 3842m. Talk about dizzying. Really felt the effects of altitude. Tingling fingertips, racing heartbeat, feeling like almost ready to pass out. It is a stunning day though and the views are awesome. Yay! We’re in the mountains 🗻🏔👏👏👏👏Read more
TravelerAnd that’s just the beginning! So beautiful!
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Traveler Lots of snow!
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Traveler Love a good saucisson!
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- Day 8
- Thursday, September 8, 2022
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Altitude: 1,154 m
- France Les Contamines-Montjoie 45.8176, 6.728345°49’3” N 6°43’42” E
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Tour du Mont Blanc
September 8, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Bye to Chamonix. Hi to a great group of fellow trekkers. A family from Colorado, a mother and daughter from near Banff. And four more Americans plus us. Really nice people to travel with. Up and down over these mountains with great views!Read more
TravelerLooks like great weather & stunning scenery. What was the destination town?
9/8/22Reply
Traveler Looking strong Jem!
9/8/22Reply
TravelerToday we leave Le Contamine. First night was Les Houches. 😊
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- Day 9
- Friday, September 9, 2022
- ⛅ 6 °C
- Altitude: 3,536 m
- Italy Aiguilles de Trélatête 45.809115, 6.81347445°48’33” N 6°48’49” E
Walking into Italy
September 9, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 6 °C
Fantastic day today. Weather quite crisp in the morning and at the top of the Col de la Seigne. Rest of the day just beautiful . Stopped at a fantastic spot for a break at Refuge Elizabetta right near the border of France and Italy.Read more
TravelerHow beautiful! Another world! And across the seas little John is five! He says hi xx
9/9/22Reply
TravelerLisa isn’t that walk into Italy something else with the colours of the water, wild flowers and cow bells!
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Looks absolutely devine…. tiny bit jelly, here! [Susie]
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TravelerYou’ve done this already haven’t you Susie?
9/14/22Reply
TravelerYes it’s amazing. This is the day we found out the Queen had died. 😌
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- Day 10
- Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 12:19 PM
- ⛅ 12 °C
- Altitude: 1,660 m
- Italy Pra Neiron 45.785686, 6.90052845°47’8” N 6°54’2” E
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Courmayeur
September 10, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Found our way here to a spa in a nearby town. (Pre Saint Didier) Sauna, spa, relax and scrumptious lunch in the Italian Alps.
Luxury! [Liz]
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Just what you deserve after a long hike! [Liz]
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How good is that! [Liz]
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- Day 11
- Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 11:35 AM
- ☀️ 12 °C
- Altitude: 1,590 m
- Switzerland La Fouly 45.933723, 7.09831845°56’1” N 7°5’54” E
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Refuge Bonatti
September 11, 2022 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Walked Courmayeur to Refuge Bonatti. Perched high with an incredible view all the way. Most of the trip is 3 star hotels except for tonight. 😳
TravelerI loved the way you’d be hiking along past people on the way and greetings went from Bonjour , Bonjour in France to Buongiorno!!into Italy
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- Day 12
- Monday, September 12, 2022
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 2,067 m
- Italy Grand Col Ferret 45.884742, 7.06547845°53’5” N 7°3’56” E
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Up, up, up over to Switzerland
September 12, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Todays walk took us from Italy into Switzerland. We hiked over a pass at 2537m high (Grand Col Ferret) and was around 20km in length. Tonight we’re at La Fouly. Todays height gain was 980m and the loss was 1400m. Gorgeous day. Started with the sun shining on the mountains behind us and with views all round all day.Read more
TravelerLooks beautiful Lisa, what an experience, take care! Xxx
9/12/22Reply
TravelerThat was a big day from memory seemed to go on and on.
9/14/22Reply
TravelerI loved the refuges all the comrade of fellow hikers!
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Traveler Bet that was yum
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- Day 13
- Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at 8:20 AM
- ⛅ 12 °C
- Altitude: 2,276 m
- France Le Brévent 45.926556, 6.83364245°55’36” N 6°50’1” E
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Le Champex
September 13, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Some pics not all taken by me but of the group at places we are trekking.
Travelergarden gnomes a plenty!
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TravelerLove hearing Gem’s laugh!
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TravelerNice of you to ask him along
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- Day 14
- Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 4:00 PM
- ☁️ 16 °C
- Altitude: 1,273 m
- Switzerland Col de la Forclaz 46.057721, 6.99420946°3’28” N 6°59’39” E
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Still in Switzerland, at Triente
September 14, 2022 in Switzerland ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Hiked a 16km day. Rained a bit just enough to get a bit of use of the waterproof gear we’ve been lugging everyday. These alps are so so high. We see some people trail running them which is astounding we feel. Walking up is tough enough. Height gain 850m, height loss 1040m. This means we’re down low in a valley and the only way out is up! 😩😬Read more
Enjoy, happy it's tough hahah [Kerrie May]
9/14/22Reply
TravelerKids are enjoying looking at the photos of the toadstools and sheep
9/16/22Reply
Traveler That is so beautifully Swiss!
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- Day 19
- Monday, September 19, 2022
- ⛅ 26 °C
- Altitude: 670 m
- Spain Plaza de Vazguez de Mella 40.418987, -3.69759540°25’8” N 3°41’51” W
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Madrid
September 19, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Woke up to snow on the mountains in Chamonix just as we’re ready to go. It was a fond farewell to a lovely town. Had dinner on the last night with our newfound TMB friends from Colorado and Seattle. Couldn’t have asked for a nicer group of trekkers and we will miss them. So we zipped over to Madrid where it is lovely and warm. We’ve enjoyed a couple of days here just wandering around, took a tour on the sightseeing bus as you do. Slept looong hours in a our hotel. We’ve been fully in recovery mode after the TMB. Scoffing cafe con leche, empanadas and tapas daily here. Not much in the way of photos to show. Went wandering and found a book each in the English section of a Spanish bookshop. Can’t be without books. Jem is donating his big leather hiking boots as he has no room for them in his case now. They’re pretty heavy and he will be needing some lighter ones for the future treks. (Xmas?) His toenails are black and he’ll lose them for sure. This may be the real reason for better boots. 😜Read more
Traveler Love this
9/19/22Reply
TravelerOh lord Ted got a blacky from that trek too
9/20/22Reply
TravelerUnderstandable but glad I didn’t
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- Day 20
- Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 12:31 PM
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 114 m
- Spain Universidad De Córdoba / Facultad de Filosofía Y Letras 37.880039, -4.78110337°52’48” N 4°46’52” W
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Cordoba
September 20, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Some pics from our visit to the Mezquita today. Truly beautiful and awe inspiring. Cathedral and former mosque.
Traveler My gosh, didn’t know they knew how to give the finger back then !😀
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Traveler Those calves look good
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TravelerFit as a trout
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- Day 24
- Saturday, September 24, 2022
- ⛅ 27 °C
- Altitude: 700 m
- Spain Paseo de los Tristes 37.178768, -3.59059737°10’44” N 3°35’26” W
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Granada
September 24, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Full on sightseeing mode here. Visited Montefrío and the Castle at Almodóvar del Rio. We have a driver take us to these two places and stopped at a couple castles on a hill. Today though was the visit to the Alhambra. Fortified citadel, palace and gardens overlooking the city of Granada.Read more
Traveler Glorious
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Traveler Looks magnificent, such history, the buildings are unreal. Glad to see you both looking so happy. Xxx
9/25/22Reply
Traveler Happiness!!!
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Traveler 🤩🤩🤩
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- Day 25
- Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 2:41 PM
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Altitude: 787 m
- Spain Carmen de los Martires 37.174858, -3.5850537°10’29” N 3°35’6” W
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Generalife Gardens
September 25, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Went back up to the Alhambre today to look around these gardens. The summer palace of the Caliphs. Very beautiful and loads of tourists to dodge. Really wanted to go to the Hammam Spa today too but it was booked out. 😌. We went to one in Cordoba and had a massage plus all the hot and cold pools and steam room treatments. It was divine. We are still not recovered from all the hiking we’ve done. Our legs don’t like any of the hills much after what we already did. 🥾🏔🏔🏔🏔🤪Read more
Traveler 😍😍😍😍
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- Day 26
- Monday, September 26, 2022 at 11:48 AM
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Altitude: 696 m
- Spain El Tajo Gorge 36.74086, -5.16647336°44’27” N 5°9’59” W
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Castles on hills and Ronda
September 26, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Took a drive through endless olive groves and windy roads through another town with a Castle on a hill and one with everything built into the side of a hill. Jem looooooves the crumbling ruins. He loves imagining the marauding Christians in the past charging through to capture the castles and send the Moors packing from Europe. (Or whatever went on, just boy stuff, fighting and armies and strategy)Read more
Traveler Ha
9/27/22Reply
TravelerI’ve been to quite a few places in Spain but Ronda looks like something else! So beautiful
9/27/22Reply
Traveler Falsely imprisoned
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- Day 27
- Tuesday, September 27, 2022
- ☀️ 23 °C
- Altitude: 733 m
- Spain Parroquia Santa María la Mayor 36.73798, -5.1648236°44’17” N 5°9’53” W
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The point of the trip is
September 27, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Un espresso y un cafe con leche y agua con gas por favor. #Language skills 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃
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TravelerSo amazing mum! Sorry I’m only catching up on the photos now!! 😍😍😍
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Traveler Wow
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Traveler Wow!
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- Day 32
- Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 4:30 PM
- ☀️ 29 °C
- Altitude: 85 m
- Portugal University of Lisbon Botanical Garden 38.720085, -9.15038738°43’12” N 9°9’1” W
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Cathedrals and Alcazars
October 2, 2022 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Seville was so impressive. The cathedral so enormous our photos couldn’t even capture it. Of course we climbed to the top of it though and looked around the alcazar marvelling at the beauty of the architecture and gardens . Yesterday landed in Lisbon. Took the sightseeing bus this morning.Read more
TravelerStunning architectural style
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Traveler Wow all that looks fabulous Lisa, the architecture is unreal. Enjoy!! ❤️❤️❤️
10/3/22Reply
Traveler Portuguese tarts 😋
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- Day 36
- Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 9:46 AM
- ⛅ 12 °C
- Altitude: 57 m
- England Ambleside 54.431583, -2.96228954°25’54” N 2°57’44” W
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I wandered lonely as a cloud
October 6, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
…….that floats on high…. Ok enough you get it. Wordsworth country. We’re in the Lake District after flying from Lisbon to Manchester yesterday and driving up here in the afternoon. No daffodils but beautiful rolling hills and stone walls. Saw where Wordsworth is buried, the house he lived in plus Dove Cottage and Museum. Dove Cottage where he lived and wrote a lot of his poems. Was fantastic. It was a full day where we did what is expected. Ie ate scones with jam and cream and took a country stroll. Gazed upon herds of black faced sheep that dot the countryside. Think the breed is Herdwick. It’s also Derwent coloured pencil land. It’s a good time to come here, colours of autumn makes me want to get some pencils and start colouring in. Also…. plenty of hiking shops and I admit to spending a bit getting some great waterproof gloves and a few other things. Ready for our next hiking adventure. 👏😊 (am going to need to reconsider giving up hiking 😬)Read more
Traveler 😄
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Traveler Oh dear……
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TravelerSounds like you’re having the trip of a lifetime! Glad you’re reconsidering giving up hiking 😂😂😂
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Traveler🤪🤪
10/7/22Reply
TravelerWindermere ! So beautiful home also of Beatrix Potter Too true his words on ermersing oneself in nature
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- Day 38
- Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 5:42 PM
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Altitude: 133 m
- England Bourton on the Water 51.901313, -1.76350551°54’5” N 1°45’49” W
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The West Midlands
October 8, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Visited the final resting place of Jems Mum Edith in the garden where her beloved brother is also laid to rest. She always did want to be back in England and now she is…..Had a lovely lunch with Jems cousins Sarah and Stuart afterwards. Next day Went to the other side of Birmingham to see the Black Country Living Museum which was fantastic. Best museum ever. So fun to see how people lived in that time. Said hello to Tipton and I think the place Mum said goodbye to when they immigrated to Australia in 1956.
Then, drove to the Cotswolds for our last night and day wandering around the pretty old stone villages.

NOW WE ARE AT HEATHROW! Excited to go home. Great trip. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕👏👏👏👏 6 COUNTRIES, plenty history, architecture and general eyeballing! See ya next time Penguin lovers. XxRead more
Looking forward to your return! [Riz]
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TravelerLove the English villages it’s all been beautifully preserved, so much history.
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Traveler Where dis
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Trip end
October 10, 2022