Amelia's Blog

Jan 3, 202310 min read

Can walking help your brain? Can you walk into happiness?

Before I lost my job, I was flying high. I was working as a Keeper of Art in a museum negotiating with the Tate Britain and the Arts...

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Dec 30, 20223 min read

How can one day of walking in the snow be so blissful?

Like all children from 3 to 83, I wanted snow at Christmas, but we did not get any. A few days before Christmas, however, we had a...

Jan 11, 20224 min read

Meet Leigh Turner, the Former British Ambassador to Austria - AKA Robert Pimm.

In 2020 I wrote a blog asking how many previous lives have you had? I wrote this partly because I am a firm believer in the concept and...

Dec 18, 20215 min read

Is Walking Boring? Written by my Guest Blogger - Sabrina Balin.

Over the past few years, I have grown to like blogging. I collect ideas and images, think about what may interest my readers, and jot my...

Oct 10, 20213 min read

What a difference a step makes. Walking in the Mountains or at Work - are all steps the same?

I usually walk the designated 10,000 steps a day either in my garden or in the hills and mountains of Southern Austria, where I now live....

May 12, 20215 min read

What did Shakespeare know about Mental Health?

"There is a willow grows aslant a brook." Shakespeare, Nature and Mental Health By Amelia Marriette As the weather begins to improve and...

Nov 14, 20202 min read

How to make walking in the same landscape every day a gift

Dr Kerri Andrew's new book Wanderers: A History of Women Walking is a long-overdue work and is a very welcome addition to the canon. Dr...

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