Uptown and downtown Lisbon are two different worlds, and your strategy of experiencing the two unequal halves of the Portuguese capital should reflect this. For your uptown walk on the slopes of the city we suggested last week, you should pick a starting point and an end point on opposite ends of the old town…
Winter is the season that most dramatically divides the world into North and South. But here is a comforting thought for all those among you who are currently in the grip of the cold and the dark: the people who inhabit the gentler climes of the Mediterranean may be spared the worst of the weather,…
GUEST POST There are many myths about how hard it is hiking mountains. But these five mountains we are presenting today will prove that such myths are to be taken with a grain of salt. Mountain hiking is not just about ropes, the cold and the tremendous efforts required. It is also about the beauty the…
Let’s have a hiking photo blog, said Mrs Easy Hiker. It was only when I had such a hard time finding anything halfway decent in our archive of our easy hiking in Germany that I realized how poor the photographs are that we actually have or, put differently, how few of them are actually good…