easy hiking trails in Europe
A Series of Byzantine Tableaux Vivants Enacts Good Friday in Paros. There are many reasons to love the holiday of Easter. Here is mine: while Christmas nowadays is more or less the same everywhere – a truly globalized event, celebrated from Alaska to Zimbabwe with decorated pine trees, Silent Night and a jolly fat man…
Three Easy Pieces for Hikers on Paros Yes, you guessed it : We are in Greece! On the beautiful island of Paros, to be precise, the pearl of the Aegean Sea. And just to prove to you that we are not simply taking it easy – although the temptation to just have a good time and…
Hiking through History in Ios, Milos and Paros in Exploring the Cyclades Hiking is a wonderful way of exploring and experiencing your immediate neighbourhood. If you have never wondered what the world looks like beyond that distant little strip of green that you can see from your bedroom window, chances are you will not get…
Following in the footsteps of our distant ancestor – and meeting some of his four-legged friends on this Neanderthal Hike Why Neanderthal Man? Why is he the star in that collection of human ancestors, more famous than Peking man* and Heidelberg man, never mind the even less snappily named Homo Habilis and Australopithecus? There may…
Easy Hikes in the South of France For people who live in and around Nice, Mont Boron is the most readily accessible piece of “real nature” just in front of their doorstep. It is convenient to reach on foot and/or on public transport, yet sufficiently forest-like to pass for the real thing. For visitors, Mont…
Themed Walks in London A visit to Five London Parks No visit to London feels complete without a trip to one of the capital’s great parks. The Central London parks belong to the city’s greatest tourist attractions – in fact, London is nearly as famous for her green spaces as she is for her furry-hatted guardsmen…
Walks in the Italian Riviera Taggia and Arma – a tale of two towns Another “two Italian towns for the price of one” walk, but one with a difference. You may remember: last year, we invited you to accompany us on a walk from Porto Maurizio to Oneglia, the two sister towns that together make…
Urban Walks in the South of France Walk to the villa where W B Yeats died In general, I don’t believe in the theory that you can acquire an understanding of literature through a process of natural osmosis in the places where it was once written – in other words that you can replace, for…
Easy Hiking in the French Riviera French Riviera Hikes that combine the genteel and the (semi)-wild Today’s walk completes our short series of excursions to Beaulieu-sur-mer, the small town to the east of Nice on the French Riviera which is genteel, effortlessly elegant and everything else that Monaco so feverishly wants to be. The trail…
Urban walks in the South of France A walk through Little Africa in the Riviera One of the things I have been wondering about ever since we started to come regularly to the Riviera is: where did the Petit Afrique area in Beaulieu-sur-Mer get its name from? On one of our recent hikes, we had the…