Histories and Curiosities
Longer reading about the cities and places our walks go through. Read it at home, or on the way.
- 🪨 Arches: What You Will FindOver two thousand stone arches, one on the licence plates of a whole state, and one that fell in August 2008 - five minutes of reading.5 min read
- 🐻 Berlin: HistoryFrom a swamp through cabaret and rubble to a capital that is poor but sexy - eight hundred years of one city in five minutes.5 min read
- 🧡 Bryce Canyon: What You Will FindIt is not a canyon, it is walls of stone figures, more of them here than anywhere on Earth - and a sky on which seven and a half thousand stars are visible. Five minutes of reading.5 min read
- 🏺 Cyprus: HistoryThe island where a goddess was born of the foam, which gave copper its name, and which is still divided - ten thousand years in twenty minutes of reading.11 min read
- 🐴 Dead Horse Point: What You Will FindA viewpoint six hundred metres above a bend in the Colorado, blue lakes that do not belong there, and the ending of a famous film - five minutes of reading.4 min read
- 🌡️ Death Valley: What You Will FindThe lowest, driest and hottest place in North America, stones that move by themselves, and a lake people kayaked on in 2024 - five minutes of reading.5 min read
- 🇩🇪 Germany: HistoryFrom legions lost in a forest through three hundred princedoms and two catastrophes to the largest economy in Europe - two thousand years in ten minutes.12 min read
- 🏜️ Island in the Sky: What You Will FindA mesa six hundred metres above its surroundings, an arch that lights up from below, and a crater argued over for a hundred years - five minutes of reading.5 min read
- 🇮🇹 Italy: HistoryFrom a she-wolf with twins to the country that gave the world the bank, the opera and the pizza - three thousand years in twenty minutes of reading.13 min read
- 🎰 Las Vegas: HistoryA meadow with a spring in the middle of the desert that became a city with more hotel rooms than anywhere in America - and a screen the size of a building. Ten minutes of reading.8 min read
- 🗽 New York: HistoryFrom an island bought for sixty guilders to a city where eight hundred languages are spoken - four hundred years in twelve minutes of reading.12 min read
- 🌋 Pompeii: What You Will Find5 min read
- 🏰 Prague: HistoryFrom Libuše's Prophecy to the Velvet Revolution - Eleven Hundred Years of One City's Story in a Twenty-Minute Read.22 min read
- 🦌 Rocky Mountain: What You Will FindA road at an altitude where no tree grows, elk that bugle in town, and a hotel where a famous horror novel began - five minutes of reading.5 min read
- 🌉 San Francisco: HistoryA village of five hundred people that became a city in a year, a bridge whose colour came from a misunderstanding, and a fog with its own social media account - ten minutes of reading.9 min read
- 🦁 The Czech Lands: History18 min read
- 🦅 The USA: HistoryFrom Columbus's mistake to Silicon Valley - five hundred years in twenty minutes of reading.26 min read
- 🧗 Yosemite: What You Will FindA nine-hundred-metre granite wall, a waterfall that does not run in August, and bears that picked cars by make - five minutes of reading.5 min read
- ⛰️ Zion: What You Will FindA canyon you may not drive into, a ridge with chains you reach through a lottery, and a trail that runs in the river itself - five minutes of reading.5 min read