easy hiking trails in Europe
Here’s Mrs Easy Hiker to show you how she made….. A Salad Nicoise We’re back in the French Riviera. This time, in Cannes. And on the day we got there, summer seems to be refusing to budge for the arrival of autumn. It was scorching hot! We were in the city of celebrities for three and…
Easy hiking in the French Riviera Villefranche-sur-Mer If you only have time for one hiking trail during your holiday in the French Riviera, do yourself a favour and make it this one. The tour around Mont Alban near the picturesque village of Villefranche-sur-mer was the best trail we took during our stay in the area….
Walking Holidays in France On our return trip on the Train des Merveilles from Tende to Nice, we made use of the opportunity to stagger our return and to visit one of the picturesque hilltop villages along the way. The train schedule allows you to put in one or two stopovers and still arrive in…
A Ride on the Train of Marvels No easy hiking trip to the PACA region – the acronym for “Provences Alpes Cote d’Azur“– would be complete without a sojourn into the first half of that double bill, the mountainous hinterland of the French Riviera with a ride on the Train of Marvels (Train de Merveilles)….
Easy hiking in the South of France To get the best out of an easy hiking trip to the French Riviera, you must adapt your schedule to your surroundings and the opportunities they provide: this, after all, is not the Black Forest. Take it easy: the Côte d’Azur is best enjoyed in small portions –…
Easy hiking in the French Riviera Finally, we were able to get some hiking done after a day of enforced inactivity. The normally sun-spoilt French Riviera has been blessed by the country’s worst weather all week, and the azure which is usually the cote’s trademark has been fading to a dark hue of grey. The…
To be honest, I did not know that much about the town before we came a few days ago for our hiking trip on the French Riviera, much less… … the beaches and billionaires of Antibes. We had been here some years ago on a daytrip, a half-day trip to be precise, while staying in Cannes. It…
Finally, we are in Antibes! And the big news is that our vacation rental in Antibes – our base for the hiking trips we have planned along the French Riviera the next week or so – is much prettier than we had dared to expect. It’s a real “maison de caractère” as they say over here, ……
Do You Know Your German Wine Festivals? Having told you so much about wine festivals in the Palatinate for the past two weeks, we simply have to take you to one. Although I must quickly add that the Kaisertafel in Speyer, the region’s historic capital, is not, strictly speaking, a “wine festival” and more of…
Hiking in Germany Two Castles with a Medieval Tale to Tell Wolfstein, the starting point or final stop of the Pfälzer Höhenweg hiking trail in the northern Palatinate, is a handsome small town with quite a few period buildings ….. … but most of the visitor’s interest will inevitably focus on its two castles nearby,…