Easy Hiking in New Zealand A guest post by John and Andrea Spirov Visitors to New Zealand may be easily fooled into thinking that the most magnificent scenery lies only in the South Island. But the North Island also has some spectacular terrain, including what many consider to be the best one-day hiking trail in…
Bill Bryson as an Apres Hike In the few months that this website has been in operation, I have featured easy hiking adventures in Europe and the US, discussed hiking boots, backpacks and other hiking subjects. One thing I have not talked about at all is the topic of après-hike.And why has nobody so far bothered…
Walking near Paris A Hiking Trail in Chantilly This time, our Paris hike brings us to a hiking trail in Chantilly, 30 minutes by train from the Gare du Nord, for a short hike of two hours with much to see on the way – particularly for people with at least a passing interest in…
Guest Post: Hiking Holidays in France Santiago de Compostela in France by Les Trois Chenes How pleased I was to discover that the historic Pilgrim route of St Jacques de Compostelle (The Way of Saint James of Santiago de Compostela) passes by our Bed and Breakfast in Limousin, France. Limousin is a wonderful place for ramblers…
Just about everything anybody in Europe knows about the “Badlands” in South Dakota – to the extent that they know anything about them at all – is that they provide the setting and the title for a classic outlaw movie, a sort of Bonnie and Clyde for the 1970s. But did you know that the Badlands…
Day hiking near Paris Day Hiking near Paris – Chaville Recently, the days have been cold, miserable and grey. With temperatures approaching their record low (for early December), snowflakes drifting past the window and no sign for even the slightest improvement in sight, the only hike I shall undertake all week will be from the…
Recently, someone asked me what one has to look out for when reading the description of a hike. When a blogger or newspaper journalist writes about a hike that they liked so much that they bothered to sit down and write 500 or 1000 words about it, how can the reader tell whether he would…
Hiking near Paris Chevreuse and our Beaujolais Nouveau Hike Out of all the walks we have done in Paris, the Chevreuse walk is the best. It provides a balanced blend of the rustic and the civilized, the rough and the smooth, nature and culture. (A perfect easy hiking trail near Paris.) To anybody staying in…
Day Hikes near Paris Hiking in Paris – Verrière Forest For our week-end day hiking near Paris, we were off to the Verrière Forest in the south of Paris – a trip that stands in stark contrast to our previous week’s excursion in more than one way. We were less lucky with the weather, for…
Guest Post: Easy hiking in France by Thomas Dowson There is no better place to bring easy hiking, culture and stunning scenery together than along the Upper Normandy coastline in France. Here, in that part of Normandy north of the Seine River, you will find dramatic white chalky cliffs with pebble beaches and small fishing…