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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Hiked part 24/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 15.8 kilometres from Otterlo to Hoenderloo. Walked from Otterlo through De Hoge Veluwe National Park to Hoenderloo. The route crossed pine forest, sandy heath, beech avenues and a marsh...
Hiked part 23/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 19.0 kilometres from Schaarsbergen to Otterlo. A long walk through the Hoge Veluwe National Park, with woods at the start and end and wide open heath in the middle. I saw deer in the heather...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote A Preface to Paradise Lost. It began as a series of lectures given at Oxford in 1941. Lewis sets out to help readers enjoy and understand Milton’s long poem. He explains what an epic is and why Milton...
Hiked part 22/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 17.7 kilometres from Hoog Soeren to Garderen. Left Hoog Soeren past thatched farms and a small chapel, then crossed the golf course into beech and pine woods. The route opened onto wide...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Letters on Living the Faith. This recent collection brings together excerpts from hundreds of his personal letters. Editor David C. Downing has chosen the most helpful parts where Lewis answers real...
Hiked part 21/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 11.2 kilometres from Elspeet to Echoput. Left Elspeet along a quiet lane and walked past an old brick farmhouse dated 1788. The route then went through the Gortelsche Bos, with beech and pine...
Hiked part 20/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 11.8 kilometres from Garderen to Elspeet. Walked from Garderen past the Canadian war memorial and out onto the open heath of the Elspeterheide. The sky was grey at first but cleared later, and...
Hiked part 19/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 13.5 kilometres from Rozendaal to Arnhem. Left Castle Rosendael behind and threaded through beech woods in full spring green before opening onto the heaths and pine forests of De Beekhuizen...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Screwtape Proposes a Toast and Other Pieces. The book brings back the senior devil Screwtape from The Screwtape Letters. In the main title piece Screwtape gives an after-dinner speech at a banquet for...
Hiked part 18/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 13.6 kilometres from Rheden to Rozendaal. From Rheden the trail climbs into the Veluwezoom National Park and crosses the rolling heath of the Posbank, with wide panoramas over heather,...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote The Weight of Glory. It is a collection of nine essays, most originally delivered as sermons or lectures during the Second World War. The book includes well-known pieces such as “The Weight of Glory,”...
Hiked part 17/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 8.2 kilometres from Dieren to Rheden. At Dieren, the enormous game park is a former hunting area of the House of Orange. At De Steeg there is a large boulder, the Devil's Stone. The Posbank is...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Christian Reflections. This is a collection of fourteen essays published after his death and edited by Walter Hooper. The pieces were written between 1939 and 1962 and cover a wide range of topics....
Hiked part 16/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 19.6 kilometres from Loenen to Dieren. This stage leaves Loenen and crosses quiet pine woods and the open heathland of the Eerbeekse Veld and Terletse Heide, before descending through the...
Hiked part 15/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 19.9 kilometres from Hoenderloo to Loenen. Woeste Hoeve is renowned for its wildlife overpass above the A50, built to prevent ancient migration routes from being blocked. In Loenen, a shepherd...