easy hiking trails in Europe
Walks in Germany A Historic Walk in French Rococo Garden in Germany The trail around the Bagno Park in Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt (in northwest Germany) makes for the perfect winter walk. It is not too long to be exhausting, but not too short either (just right, as a matter of fact, to get you going after all…
Hiking in SpaiN To start off the New Year, I will tell you about a hike we did NOT do. In Mallorca, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man should have done the Torrent de Pareis hike at least once in his life. Or so we were told when we arrived in Sa…
Walking London by Mrs. Easy Hiker Rediscovering English Food on the East End Menu The ports of the East End of London have welcomed several waves of immigrants throughout their history. First, the French Protestants, then the Jews of Eastern Europe followed by the Chinese, the Italians and some Germans. In the last century, it…
Themed Walks in London Let’s Continue Walking London with Charles Dickens For part 2 of our themed walk, we continue walking London with Charles Dickens to find where he spent the most traumatic years of his life. We start at Southwark tube station, walking straight into Union Street before turning right into Great Suffolk Street…
Themed London Walks Walking London with Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was the greatest urban walker of all times. By which I mean to say that he was not only the most famous, that goes almost without saying, but also second-to-none in terms of proficiency and stamina. He roamed through the streets of London for four…
Roman Holidays From Ostia Antica to Lido di Ostia Ostia was, and up to a point still is, Rome’s connection with the Mediterranean. Ostia is the Latin word for mouth, and this is what the ancient Romans called the place where the river Tiber met the sea. Due to silting, however, this place has moved…
Roman Holidays Is Castel Gandolfo Worth a Visit? The bad news first. While Lake Albano looks great from the train when you are approaching Castel Gandolfo station near Rome: lush, green, scenic and just the right size for an easy once-around (an estimated 10 km) that would still give you plenty of time to explore…
Roman Holidays: Walking Down the Road to Rome All roads lead to Rome. But this is not to say that it does not matter which one of these roads you are going to take. Clearly, there is one road to Rome which is more deeply woven into the city’s historical fabric than the others, more famous and…
Roman Holidays Eating in Rome One of the great advantages of having a holiday flat in a residential area – rather than a downtown hotel – is that you are going to live like local people and do what local people do, if only for a week. You shop for groceries in ordinary supermarkets, search…
Roman Holidays More Famous Movies in Rome At the end of Part One in our movie walk through Rome, we arrived at the Tempio di Adriano in Piazza di Pietra. This is where we pick up the trail for today’s conclusion of the tour to find more famous movies in Rome. Continue straight into Piazza…