Oh, I do like to be...

[shewhomust]

The Guardian travel supplement majored on the seaside this weekend. I might have been deterred from reading the lead article about the Oregon coast by the headline, which made it all sound too cool and hip for words, but I was drawn in by a beautiful photo of a beach, all artfully placed rocks and flat, pale blue waves. The articles's well written, too (even if the author can't help mentioning her boyfriend's band once or twice...).

A few pages on, there's a walk on the Amalfi coast, which sounds wonderful if at times a bit steep - and looking for the description online I found an interesting piece about the Amalfitan lemon growerss: walking through lemon groves has a certain charm. Here's the holiday company's description of the walk.

(And here, for reference, is the walk they offer in Slovenia, described as easy walking, through wine country and taking you to Trieste, a city that intrigues me for no better reason than its location).

The immediate prospect, though, is of seaside walking closer to home: we have just booked a short holiday on the Fife Coastal Path in early October. The minute we made the booking, it started to rain, and has been showery ever since, but I don't care. Which may just mean that I am being ridiculously optimistic...

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Oregon is lovely. I completely lost my heart to Portland when I went up there last autumn. They have the most beautiful forested mountains, too.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not impossible we'll return to the west coast...

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

The Amalfi Coast walk looks very appealing, albeit a bit sporty for people with vertigo. I always wanted to visit that part of Italy but haven´t got round to it yet.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

durham_rambler is not fond of heights. I'm afraid you are right about the vertigo. In my dreams I shall walk through the lemon groves with you, but in reality, maybe not...

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

One of the things I admire most about you is that you not only take the time and effort to wander around your lovely corner of the world, you also look to wander around other corners. I find that I want to wander too and am so glad that you take us along with you for your adventures as best you can. And you could always visit Bostonia; I'd be glad to introduce you to sunspiral and roozle and could possibly arrange crash-space for you and meet you there to play tour-guide.

In the meantime, I'm glad that I tab your travel-posts, even if it takes months for me to get back to read them.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Happy to have you along - and yes, visiting Boston together would be great (and we have friends thereabout we'd like to visit, too!).

But right now my head is full of Orkney, and I can't think about anywhere else...