Unusual hobbies.

I would not class the first two as hobbies but as social skills.

I am not familiar with the abbreviation "E * E".

The other two though... Do you have some special definition for them? I see them as essential skills in situations that may be hobby or leisure related: visiting unfamiliar towns for cultural reasons, walking or cycling for pleasure in the countryside, etc.

In which case, yes: I have done a lot of walking over the years, using maps and the landscape itself to guide me, and sometimes visited towns and cities new to me.

It sounds morbid but lately I scour the obituaries in about 3 counties to see who all I know has died. So many that I worked with at the university have died in the past couple of years. The local newspaper used to print death notice and obituaries of people who had any kind of local connection but seems they are charging rates so high to do it now that most who don’t actually live in the city won’t pay to have them posted in the newspaper.