onewomanwalks

The ability to go with the flow

You can believe you’re a person who is relaxed, able to be spontaneous and flexible – those are admirable character traits right? But then something happens tha...

Happy New Year from Venice everyone

I'm skipping ahead in my story to tell you that I have arrived in Venice on the 31st of December 2019 and I am lucky enough to enter 2020 in this glorious city,...

Meeting Maria, Hutsul woman of the Ukrainian Carpathians

There was one more thing that happened on my way to Rachiv. It was just a long straight road, 10 miles along the valley bottom towards the town where I was goin...

Descent from Hoverla - highest peak of Ukraine

The sky began to glow pink as I packed away, so happy to be here experiencing this, the beauty of the day beginning, the tinges of light turning the mountain ye...

I went to climb 3 mountains but only managed 1.5

I’ve realised something about myself – it’s always been there, in the times when I’m emotional or drunk, but in the long days of walking when I’m tired and hung...

Ukraine - the walk so far

I’ve been walking for six weeks and I’ve covered almost 400 miles so I thought it was time to do a summary post of the shape of my journey across Ukraine, what ...

Central Ukraine - some small memories

I met a soldier on the road; I looked up and there he was, a tall man in dusty camouflage clothing and a peaked cap standing in the centre of the stony road sta...

My very rough planned route

This is how you walk 9000 km across Europe! I thought I'd make a post to show the map that's in my profile picture. It's the very rough route plan which has alr...

My first bad day

It all feels hazy now, a few days down the line. So much of what I’ve done this week has been in mild dehydration under hot sun. Exhaustion plays with your memo...

Sleeping in a field and then entering town - Ukraine

I am in a coffee shop in Kozyatyn town and it is tiny. One counter, one round table, one set of chairs at a window seat. Proudly established in 2017, proclaims ...

Finding my feet - the first week of walking

It’s apple season in Ukraine. Apple and walnut and mushroom season. Trees hang branches over every garden fence, waiting for a hand to catch their mottled dropl...

First I had to get there - Hitchiking to Kiev part 2

After leaving Marius I tried hitching for a bit but it was getting dark and I was tired, I walked a short way into the fields, put up my tent and slept. Next da...

First I had to get there - Hitchiking to Kiev

The thing I always forget about hitching is how it feels to wait. I can tell you all about the wild rides, the interesting people, bad coffee in expensive petro...

Introducing myself - the long distance walker

Hello Steemians, I'm Ursula and I'm walking across Europe. That's my profile in a nutshell. Yes, I'm really walking. A lot of people I meet along the road hear ...