I walked across Tokyo last weekend. Took me 20 hours. I suck at writing so all I'll say is that everyone should walk across a city. It's a magical experience. Turn off your your phone, bring a disposable camera and a compass and just walk. You'll discover so many personal insights.
If you want to keep your phone on, street complete can be very rewarding, especially in places with not so much osm coverage.
I walked across Luxembourg
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Which is fitting, as parking is not a big problem in rural areas.
Tell that to these people: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53984239 (Romanian tourists swamp village loved by Prince Charles).
I was there last year, and to be fair, the road isn't metalled, it's mostly large white stones like gravel but about 5-10cm big. Even a single car kicks up a lot more dust than it would on a "normal" asphalt road. Not that I'm diminishing these peoples' problems, just adding context.
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> that really puts in perspective how small Europe can be at times Well, Europe is not exactly small. Luxemburg is just a small country. Europe is 3.93 million sq mi. The contiguous US is 3.1 million square miles (3.6 if we include Alaska) [1]. So Europe is quite bigger. The European Union countries alone are over 50% of the contiguous US. So that would be like judging the US as small by considering how small Rhode I…
> Moscow is in the very east of Russia I'm confused, did you mean to say that Moscow is in the very West of Russia?
Yes, west.
(Well, technically not the very very west, but pretty close given the scale of that country).
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#95I'd definitely recommend poles. They enable using the entire body when walking and act as additional points of balance which means you don't have to focus as much on just staying upright, it's like having two extra legs attached at your elbows.
That and memory foam / gel pads in your shoes. I walk a lot since the lock down and I've had knee issues in the past. Good gel pads help and using your knees with light exercise actually improves things. I Mostly wear sneakers. Hiking shoes tend to be a bit more rigid and have less shock absorption. The poles might help as well. Nordic walking, is a thing that a lot of cross country skiers do in Scandinavia to stay i…
Nordic walking seems to be popular among people of late middle age in Germany too.
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Shoes are not strictly necessary either, but they help. Trekking poles help, and I also need them to pitch my tent, so I'll keep them.
They come as part of the tent or what? Tell me more I'm intrigued.
Here's an example. This tent is not in production anymore, but was sold without poles. UL-hiking often involves finding as many uses as possible for as few items as possible.
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#98I've now completed several multi-day walks. At some point I plan to walk across Britain on the Coast to Coast path. I've walked across Spain and Gran Canaria. Maybe I should write those up on my blog...
definitely do that!
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#99how are people able to walk 100kms in 4 days with no rest days.
i just can walk 8 kms every day :(
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#100Had a roadtrip in Europe 15 years ago or so with my wife. We planned to stop in Luxembourg for a lunch, but because we failed to find a parking we had to leave the country
Parking is a problem in a lot of European cities. Trains are probably a better choice for such trips in Europe.
> Parking is a problem in a lot of European cities.
On the flipside, the inner cities are much nicer. You have fewer of those seas of concrete just for parking. I wish it was even more so and street parking as well as open lots would just not be a thing. If you really need to come by car, put it in some underground parkade (for $$$). Cities are too dominated by cars. They should be there for people, not the other way around.