The Gozo page has been expanded with a 2013 section.

See http://www.islandwalking.com/piwigo/index.php?/category/109.

Many of us, me included, need some purpose to our walking. I have kept myself busy for an additional ten years after I was already bored with walking in Oslo by using the handbook for “Kjentmannsmerket“. What to do next? The obvious answer is of course Geocaching which has become extremely popular the last few years. There is also another less known (and more geeky) answer: Playing Ingress. I have not started on this myself (at least not yet), but it is a possibility to get your @ss moving and at least get to know your own home town better.

Some more information can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDEUWItbkQ58tbLEFP6lA1PtnPk48jDBr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAExyzJPPHA&list=PLDEUWItbkQ5_z4i_FBLfjEGOz9uyFZE4c

For everyone interested in Snooker: I found this great database over all snooker results and statistics at http://www.cuetracker.net. E.g see the very interesting Head-to-Head page at http://www.cuetracker.net/pages/h2h.php.

No, there will be no walking in the woods around Oslo this year for me. I recon ten years and 125 interesting places is enough. Today I collected my gold and enamel pin as a small visible token of the accomplishment. 5 silver pins (see this page) and one gold and enamel then:

These maps were updated by Discovery Walking Guides this year. Also mind this offer: buying any Walk! guidebook qualifies you for a free Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map in DWG’s Great Map Giveaway

A new edition of Noel Rochford’s Landscapes of Tenerife.

My experience is that Tenerife has a bit more unstable wheater than other Canary Islands, but the walking is just awesome.

A new edition of Noel Rochford’s Landscapes of Corfu.

I have had quite a bit of fun on the island using earlier editions, see here.

North Cyprus (Walk and Eat)

This is not a new book, it is a first edition from 2010, still it has never been mentioned on this blog. I have been resenting advocating travel to the occupied part of Cyprus and I have read that at least in the past you could be refused entry into Greece if you had a stamp from North Cyprus in your passport. For members of Schengen this cannot be a problem, and generally I would think Greece has bigger problems these days than preventing tourists from visiting their country. Mind: I have never been in North Cyprus myself and hence has not used this book, but it is written by two of Sunflower’s most experienced writers, Brian and Eileen Anderson, and this is a recommendation in itself.

Around Nice/4th ed NEW Feb (Walk and Eat)

Sunflower also have their “Walk & Eat” series, and this is an update of their Nice book. And Nice is very good indeed for both walking and eating.