As I get older, I treat my archive photographs with greater care, both in their physical state and in respect of what they mean to me as personal memories. Having been lucky enough to travel to many corners of the world my memories of places are varied. Today the World still fascinates me. It provides an ever changing kaleidoscope of images that are asking to be photographed. Everywhere you look, from day to day normality to exciting excursions across new territory, there are.

Welcome to Walking Europe, which reflects the success of Walking Britain by providing a website dedicated to walking in Europe and beyond. It is some years since this website was first established and subsequently the coverage has slowly been widened to reach the current content. After giving Walking Britain a facelift, Walking Europe has now been given similar treatment and I hope you like the enhanced layout.

Mountains, lakes, valleys and meadows combine to produce a series of images that seem familiar. Often we think of stereotypes - alpine pastures, contented cows grazing lush grass, wooden chalets and snow-capped mountains. However, although there is much truth in this narrow view, it does little justice to the spectacular variety of terrain that Switzerland is able to offer the visitor.