Easy Hiking in France Marais de Bourges The Marais de Bourges is a unique landscape: 135 hectares of marshland, criss-crossed by a dense network of footpaths, and all that in spitting distance to the centre of one of France’s oldest cities. We had been eager to explore this area for quite some time and were…
Walking London Exploring London on Foot If you want to go exploring London on foot, you must – as a general rule – be selective and concentrate on no more than one area per day. The distances from one part of town to the other are simply too long for even the most determined urban…
Being Hemingway This is a postscript to last week’s Hemingway walk in Paris. It also doubles up, incidentally, as our St Valentine’s Day post. After all, it does involve a story of two people who disappeared in the toilet for some private business. Even though they were both men. And even though only one of them…
Guest Post: By Thomas Dowson Two Hours in Berlin in Winter Berlin, it seems, has more than its fair share of monuments and memorials. Whether this is true or not I do not know. Someone once told me Washington DC could rival the German capital for the number of memorials. Given Berlin’s history, it would not…
Paris Urban Walk III The first two episodes in this short series of Paris walks took their cues from paintings and historic photos. This Paris urban walk shall be guided by words. A Paris Urban Walk with Hemingway’s Moveable Feast I would like to invite you to follow me on a literary walk through the…
Paris Urban Walk II – An Edith Piaf Walk The Poetry of Poverty in a Paris Urban Walk Having invited you for a Paris urban walk through some of the picture-prettiest parts of Paris the last time around, today Easy Hiker will take you away from the sunny side of the street. “All cities are beautiful…
Paris Urban Walk I Walking Paris – The Artists of Montmartre The Parisian district of Montmartre has a unique position in art history. During one relatively short period in the late 19th and early 20th century, altogether not much longer than 20 years, nearly all the greatest painters of their time lived and painted here….
Urban Walking in Paris Some Themed Urban Walks in Paris There are times and occasions when it becomes simply impossible to have a civilized encounter with nature. When temperatures hover just above freezing, the wind is howling and the wet cold seeps under your skin, you would not dream of going on a “pleasure hike”…
Hiking in Germany Of all our major hikes in Germany, the only one I have never told you about is our trip to the Rothaarsteig. This is a rather odd omission because the trip was, in a way, the most important of them all: our first ever, our baptism of nature hike, if you so…
Walking in Paris Unable to plan a day hike recently, the Easy Hikers decided instead to take a short walk in a cold drizzly romantic Paris, following the “trail” most couples would do along the Avenue des Champs–Élysées leading up to the Concorde and the Jardins des Tuileries. Cold Drizzly Romantic Paris Planning a romantic getaway in…