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.
Having familiarised ourselves with the style and the atmosphere of the bourgeois 8th arrondissement of Paris (the neighbourhood around the Champs Elysees), we are now ready to explore the other quartier that plays a key role in Marcel Proust’s In Search Of Lost Time: the Faubourg St Germain, the part of Paris where, in the…
The Canal de la Siagne is said to offer one of the best easy hiking experiences in the southeast. We found this only partly confirmed in April when we walked down the waterway’s final stretch near Cannes. For our second visit, we picked a section much further “upstream” – just to the south of Grasse…
When you visit a city for the first time and are not quite sure what you want to see, it is always a good idea to start with the unusual, the distinctive and – if possible – the unique. Our last post about Lyon, for example, concentrated on the Traboules (underground passages between buildings) and…
Paris, as we have documented many times, has practically everything that makes a city worthwhile visiting: great art, great food, great history, even – believe it or not – great one-day hikes. More than enough of the latter, in fact, to fill nearly a whole website. Considering all that, it feels almost rude to voice…
Bill Bryson as an Apres Hike In the few months that this website has been in operation, I have featured easy hiking adventures in Europe and the US, discussed hiking boots, backpacks and other hiking subjects. One thing I have not talked about at all is the topic of après-hike.And why has nobody so far bothered…
Hiking and cycling make good bedfellows. There are only a few areas where you see one and not the other – even in high altitudes on rugged terrain where mountain bikers have become ever more prominent over the past decade. One exception is the Valley of the Loire in central France. This valley is famous…
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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.