Peter's Path
Peter's Path
Peter
Peter's Path is my personal endeavour to live a life of purpose through hiking, reading, and embracing the beauty of nature, faith, and ideas.
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Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Perelandra. It is the second book in his Space Trilogy. Dr Elwin Ransom travels to Perelandra, the name for Venus. He finds a perfect, unfallen world of floating islands and golden seas. The planet has...
Hiked part 12/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 17.8 kilometres from Vaassen to Hoog Soeren. In Vaassen, the centuries-old Cannenburgh castle boasts avenues and a stately park forest. You walk along streams that power water mills and...
Hiked part 11/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 16.2 kilometres from Vierhouten to Vaassen. From Vierhouten the trail leads through pine and spruce forest onto the wide open heathland, dotted with solitary Scots pines under dramatic skies....
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Out of the Silent Planet. It is the first book in his Space Trilogy. Dr Elwin Ransom is kidnapped by two ambitious scientists and taken by spaceship to Mars, called Malacandra by its people. Ransom...
Hiked part 10/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 7.7 kilometres from Elspeet to Vierhouten. From Elspeet you walk past thatched-roof farms and green pastures before entering the vast Elspeetsche Heide, one of the largest heathlands on the...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Miracles. He takes on the difficult question of whether miracles can actually happen. Lewis argues that a purely natural world cannot explain our ability to reason. He shows that if nature is all there...
Hiked part 9/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 16.6 kilometres from Leuvenum to Elspeet. From Leuvenum you follow the Leuvenumse Beek, a stream that once powered nine mills, through quiet forest. After crossing the vast Staverdense Heide...
Hiked part 8/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 14.7 kilometres from Putten centrum to Leuvenum. On this route you will pass four significant heathlands, Groevenbeekse Heide, Ermelose Heide, Westeindsche Heide and Elspeetsche Heide, where...
Hiked part 7/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 13.1 kilometres from Garderen to Putten centrum. The Speulder and Sprielderbos still partly consists of the old, communally managed malebos. The forest between Garderen and Putten has been a...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote The Problem of Pain. He faces the hard question of why pain exists if God is good and all-powerful. Lewis starts with the nature of God and human free will. He shows how pain often acts as God's...
Hiked part 6/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 9.6 kilometres from Kootwijk to Garderen. This short stage leads you from Kootwijk to Garderen, with a beautiful view of the enk. In the drifting sand area of Maanschoten near Uddel there is a...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote The Four Loves. He looks at four natural ways people love. These are affection, friendship, eros, and charity. Lewis explains each one with care. He shows their strengths and their dangers. Affection...
Hiked part 5/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 13.9 kilometres from Otterlo to Kootwijk. From Otterlo you walk to the Harskamp, which is best known for the army of soldiers who have been based here since 1893. Here in the Gelderse Vallei...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote The Abolition of Man. It began as three lectures in 1943. Lewis looks at a school textbook that teaches children to dismiss emotions as mere feelings. He calls this book the Green Book. Lewis says such...
Hiked part 4/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 17.3 kilometres from Lunteren to Otterlo. From Lunteren, experienced by its inhabitants as a close-knit village, you walk to what was designated the geographical center of the Netherlands in...