Over the years, the Easy Hikers have introduced you to subway systems, challenged you to follow in the tracks of the world’s most notorious serial killer, and one of our walks went up with a gradient angle of 90 degrees – inside a church tower. Occasionally, we admit, we have come dangerously close to stating…
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our friends and readers! New Adventures for Beginners in 2026 will take us into the hidden world of France’s second city … … up and down the riverside of the European capital of Rock’n Roll … … and into newly created open spaces of somewhere closer…
There is one drawback about Anglesey: for a tourist destination, the island – not having many large towns – offers only a narrow range of places to stay and places to eat. This is why many visitors opt to stay on the Welsh mainland, which also makes it easier then to tour the sights on…
You can easily spend a long weekend and more exploring the charms and attractions of Anglesey. But, if you must, you can also experience all in one day, enjoying everything that the island has to offer in a single package: Anglesey’s medieval history, … … its rugged natural beauty, … … mysterious Welsh traditions, ……
Wales and Brittany have more in common than bad weather: both regions were once run as independent countries and then gobbled up by stronger neighbours (England and France, respectively). This happened almost a thousand years ago, but both Wales and Brittany are still sitting a little awkwardly in the countries to which they have belonged…
The world is constantly changing, but some parts of it change more quickly than others. Landscapes, generally, change slowly and gradually if at all: on a return visit to the Alps, you will expect to see the same mountains as many years before and be rarely disappointed. Cities, by contrast, evolve much more quickly, and…
Nantes is one of France’s great provincial cities and stands – in the minds of the French – for the Atlantic West as Marseille stands for the South and Strasbourg for the East. Foreign visitors may be familiar with the city as the entry point to two of the country’s most famous tourist regions: Brittany,…
Traffic signs, street lights, bus stop shelters: street furniture is part of our lives, and we rarely ever give it a second thought. The pieces are one-dimensional: they have a specific job to do, and no other consideration – least of all aesthetics – seems to matter. In fact, however, street furniture is a lot…
Holidays are full of surprises! Or at least, they should be because that, after all, is the very essence of a break: to abandon your every-day routines and their dull predictability. Not all surprises can be pleasant, of course, but the bad surprises are the price we have to pay for the travel experiences we…
If we have so far – with last week’s post and the dispatches from our previous trip to Brittany – given you the impression that this corner of north-western France is all stone, sunshine and dramatic rock formations, then today’s visit to the Ile Grande provides the perfect opportunity for setting things straight. This island…