How Does The Idiot Deal With Climate Change While Walking In And Around Paris?

The Idiot has discovered an ideal way to deal with climate change while continuing his 600-kilometer circumnavigation of Paris on the GR1 hiking trail and taking daily two-to-four-hour walks throughout the city.

He simply accepts the whimsical yin-and-yang spring weather and walks with equal delight in any condition.

The Idiot kicks off a section of the 600-kilometer GR1 hiking path around Paris in Malesherbes on a sunny day in April with a friend he’s known since 1972.

The Idiot tackles a section of the 600-kilometer GR1 hiking path around Paris alone in the Fontainbleau forest on a cloudy and wet day in May.

The Idiot is enthused by a sunlit trail marker on the GR1 in Le Vaudoué as he heads towards Fontainbleau.

It’s an appropriately somber day when The Idiot reaches a hilltop monument to the French Resistance at the top of a hill near Noisy-sur-École.

The Idiot picnics near a field of blooming rapeseed on a sunny spring day.

The Idiot is forced indoors to eat a vegetarian pizza and a coconut flan on a rainy day in Macherin.

The Idiot ends a rainy day hike at the erstwhile home of Theodore Rousseau in Barbizon.

The Idiot enjoys a sunny day walk in Paris.

The Idiot enjoys a chilly rainy day walk in Paris.

The Idiot enjoys a windy day walk in Paris.

The Idiot enjoys a peopleless day walk in Paris.

The Idiot enjoys a cloudy day walk in Paris.

The Idiot “enjoys” a warm day walk in Paris.

The Idiot enjoys a take-friends-on-a-tour day walk in Paris.

The Idiot enjoys an in-Seine day walk in Paris.

The Idiot enjoys a walk with a Buddhist monk from Malaysia on another day of impermanence in Paris.

 

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About Joel

Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."

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