Can you imagine walking from the cold North Sea to the warm Mediterranean? Come hear about such a trip on Tuesday, March 31 at 7 pm at the Memorial Building in Hardwick. Jim and Kathy Elkind did such a trip.

The Grand Randonnee 5 (GR5) is a 1,400-mile walking route that traverses four countries, three mountain ranges, and innumerable historic and cultural landmarks. Nightly indoor accommodations distinguish this route from most long North American hiking journeys. The GR5 starts at the North Sea in The Netherlands and travels through Belgium, Luxembourg, and the whole length of France to Nice on the Mediterranean Sea. Kathy and Jim Elkind spent over 3 months in 2018 walking the changing landscape from the flat Delta region, through Ardennes, Moselle and Lorraine Valleys, finally Vosges, Jura and the Alps. They will share slides of the magnificent landscape and humorous stories of their trials and tribulations of walking together as a couple for 98 days.

The program is a companion to the Pushing the Limits book discussion on Earle Kagge's book Walking. The program is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. For more information call the library at 472-5948 or check www.jeudevinememoriallibrary.org.