
We, Mr. and Mrs. Easy Hiker, wish our friends and readers a great Christmas and a happy new year!
The blog will take a brief seasonal hiatus and hope you will follow us on new “adventures for beginners” when we return in mid-January.
It is a truth universally acknowledged (at least in my house it is) that every holiday break of more than three days must be spiced up with a bit of variety. More specifically, such longer holiday breaks should include two things: first, one day trip where you do something totally different from what you are…
Our Dulcet Christmas Wishes to You, Our Readers! Why do we all love the Internet so much? Because it allows us to answer back! “Two-way communication” is, I believe, the technical term for this. Writers no longer talk to but with their readers, leading to proper and real conversations all over cyberspace. Isn’t that wonderful?…
Help Promote Better Child Protection Third World Travel that involves better child protection The arguments for and against traveling to 3rd world countries are very similar to the ones for and against buying clothes from Bangla Desh. No, say some: to do so inevitably means supporting unsustainable and at times downright inhuman practices. But, say…
A coastal walk that produced a few stressful moments – and a stress-free shopping experience This is the story of two firsts. The first “first” first: never before had we organized a Monaco to Mala Beach hike for a group that was larger than our own little family. But this time, the invitation to take…