The History of the March Hares
Some of these March Hares still walk with the Grey Hares:
Peter Chare, John Overstall, David Heal, Giles Brandon and more recently Mark & Marion Manancourt
David Heal authored a book about the March Hares. It's called "Walkng the Frontiers" and is available on amazon.de
Here's the introduction: "A group of valiant walkers set out from the crossroads in the village of Weiswampach in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in 1980. They walked right around the country and finished in the international field outside the Belgian village of Ouren in 1982. The first people to walk around the frontiers."
Here are the walk details from the original accounts.
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Our program
Normal walk (10-20km) Every Tuesday except the last Tuesday in the month, when Ann Overstall organises a lunch in a local restaurant.
Thursday Walk (6-8km) Every Thursday when a walk leader is available.
ORGANISERS
At the moment, the organisers are
Dan Kelly (daniel.kelly-at-education.lu)
Martin Cardew (martin-at-cardew.org) [normal walks]
Bernadette Scholten (bernadette.scholten@outlook.com) [bonus walks]
Ann Overstall (overstal-at-pt.lu).
and the Mailman - Ian Allwright (luxgreyhares-at-gmail.com) who deals with the mailing list and communications
NOTICES OF WALKS
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Walk leaders are asked to mail to luxgreyhares-at-gmail.com in good time, and not later than 1 week before hand, with the following details:
- exact time and location of start of the walk itself (to make it easy for
those who want to bring cars)
- public transport routes to the starting point
- length of the walk
- exact destination (including name of café if possible) and estimated
arrival time
- things to see along the way
- terrain (rough, roads, muddy, etc.)
- any significant climbs and descents
- public transport routes from destination to Luxembourg city
- walk leader's mobile phone number.
In this way Hares can
- make an informed choice about coming on each walk,
- fix up their own transport arrangements,
- put the walk leader's number in their phone in case they get lost!
You can ask Ian to email the GH group, otherwise Martin or Dan can help with this. See below for further details.
Thursday Walk Organisers:
Thursday walks should not be too hard! Please make sure that your walks do not exceed 7km and that you details public transport links to the start and end of your walk.
Doodle: We like to use a Doodle for each walk, so that organisers can see who has planned to join the walk, and wait for any late-comers if necessary.
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Walk organisers should send details of their walk in an email to luxgreyhares-at-gmail.com (do NOT reply to another Hares' email as the reply address will probably be a walk leader).
The mail will then be forwarded to the Grey Hares in as short a delay as possible (This is done manually to avoid any spam being forwarded).
Any Hare who need to send an e-mail to all the Grey Hares should use the same procedure, although the organisers reserve the right to NOT forward any mail they think is inappropriate.
The mailbox and list is held by Ian Allwright.
If you want to mail a walk leader or one of the coordinators, please address your mail just to them.
If you want to be removed from the list or you know of someone who would like to be added, just mail Ian at luxgreyhares@gmail.com . Please check also that no Grey Hare in good standing has been omitted from the address list of this mail - if so, mail Ian.
If you know someone who wishes to join, a request can be sent to luxgreyhares@gmail.com
The above is the necessary minimum to hold our leaderless group** together. Just follow these guidelines and it should work fine.
** It's important to understand that we are not an a.s.b.l., we have no insurances and the coordinators and walk organisers offer their services without any further liability on their part. People take part in Grey Hares events entirely at their own risk.