Hiking the South West Coast Path in England

It is nearly 10 pm in the evening. A warm ocean breeze enters my room together with the calls of the seagulls. I am in the home of my friend Cathrine in a town called Bournemouth in England.

The town is an old Victorian beach town and has a special flair.

After walking through part of the town, we drink the famous local apple cider at the pier.

Tomorrow, we will start our hike along the coast. We will hike the 630 mile long hike in the reverse direction and only a part of it. It will be a meditative walk. Every day, we will pull a nature meditation card and walk with it. Together with these phrases, I will choose the most characteristic photos of this area. I hope you will enjoy the walk with us.

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Born and raised in a village along the Danube in Austria, Traude Wild soon ventured out into the world. After a two-year program for tourism in Klesheim/Salzburg, she spent nearly a year in South Africa and Namibia. By returning back to Austria, she acquired a Master of Economics at the University of Vienna. After moving to the United States with her four children, she studied Art History at Arizona State University and stayed in the United States for fourteen years. Here, she was teaching Art History in several Universities like Webster University and University of Missouri-St. Louis. Now, she lives partially in Arizona and Vienna and works together with her husband for the University of South-Carolina, Moore School of business as Adjunct Professor organising and leading Study tours in Central Europe. She also teaches at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna. Since 1999, she is practicing Zen meditation in the lineage of Katagiri Roshi. She loves to hike and to write and is a student of Natalie Goldberg. During her often many weeks long hikes she brings her awareness into the Here and Now, describing her experiences in an authentic way. She loves to walk pilgrimages. The longest hike so far was the 1,400 km long 88 Temple pilgrimage in Shikoku, Japan in 2016.

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  1. Apple cider and England are words that go together. Recently here in the U.S. (and particularly the Pacific Northwest) not only have wineries taken off spectacularly but so have cideries. Thank you England

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