Get a feel for France profonde an hour away from Paris in Santeuil (Val d’Oise). Take this Paris hiking trail in the Valley of the Viosne. Have a break from the shopping and sight seeing you’ve done in the City of Lights and breath the French countryside.
Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time is a big book in every sense of the phrase. In 7 volumes and a total of more than 1.2 million words, it deals with a lot of large topics: memory, social and political upheaval, love and death. On top of that, it features a large cast of…
In the 3rd and last of the series of tips for planning your hiking holiday in Germany, we are turning to the most difficult part of them all: how to decide which hike to pick and to determine on the basis of all the available information whether a certain trail is right for you or…
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…
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…
Things to See and Do in Germany The Hanging Trains of Wuppertal I don’t know about you, but whenever I visit a country – or a specific region of a country – for the first time, I don’t really feel I have been there at all until I pay a visit to the country’s (or…
One man’s Nirvana – the outdoors. Hiking and camping in the UK – Lake District, Peak District.
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Leigh, that was taken over this week-end during our day hike in Santeuil an hour away from Paris. We’ve been enjoying a long stretch of warm spring days. Sorry to hear Vancouver is still grey. But spring will get to you, not to worry.
I don’t know when you took that picture but it sure looks pretty and peaceful – oh and sunny too – something we haven’t seen for what feels like months in grey and rainy Vancouver.