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Guest Post: Walking in the Mediterranean A Self-Guided Walking Holiday by Catherine Davis As a lover of walking holidays I couldn’t wait to see what my first Inntravel self-guided walking holiday would be like. Inntravel specialise in walking and cycling holidays and after much deliberation my partner and I decided on a self-guided walking holiday…
Walking in the French Riviera Go walking on your holiday For as long as I have lived in Paris – and that’s 20 years this spring – I have been advising our visiting friends and guests to explore the city on their own two feet. When you go walking, not only do you see more,…
Walks near Paris A Fine Weather Walk in Maur-Creteil There are many ways to categorize hikes or walks. You can, for example, classify them on the basis of the kind of shoes you will have to wear (proper hiking boots – or will a pair of comfy trainers do?); on what you need to take…
Guest Post: Walking in Spain Best of the Holiday Haven of Majorca Blessed with good temperatures for much of the year, Majorca has become a holiday haven for those in search of some sunshine therapy. Even if you’ve come for the mountains rather than the east-coast resorts, there’s usually a reliably Mediterranean climate waiting for…
Easy Hiking in the French Riviera The View from the Roquebrune Castle Life on the French Riviera has not always been sweet – at least not for everyone, not all of the time. Life was certainly not sweet for the inhabitants of Roquebrune Castle that we found (just to the east of Monaco) on one of our recent…
What to See in Germany Buffalos on the Rothaarsteig If you are going to take on the Rothaarsteig in central Germany anytime soon, you must not miss this: for the first time in hundreds of years, buffalos will again roam the forests of Europe – south of Kühhude (Bad Berleburg), alongside Stage 4 following the…
Guest Post: Hiking in Spain Take a Walking Holiday in Alicante A sparkling jewel on the Costa Blanca coast of Spain, the city and region of Alicante is full of a range of bewitching treats that are far from the maddening crowds of nearby exuberant Benidorm. Ideal for a walking holiday. It’s the ideal place where overworked…
Walks near London A Tudor Hunting Lodge If you go hiking in the Epping Forest on the Eastern outskirts of London, you should not miss Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge. It’s a bit of a gem, really. Even in central London, there are very few original Tudor houses that have been as well preserved and that can…
Themed London Walks One of our themed London walks in swinging London – Part 2. Themed London Walks Read part 1 here Today, in the finale of the first of our themed London walks, we are crossing from Soho over into Mayfair and beyond. We start at the Spirit of Soho mural on the corner…
Themed London Walks Swinging London – Part 1 In the first of our themed London walks, we are going to take a tour of Swinging London, visiting the places where its famous inhabitants once worked or played or both. One reason why London was so “swinging” is that the lines between the two were not…