Paris Urban Walk II – An Edith Piaf Walk The Poetry of Poverty in a Paris Urban Walk Having invited you for a Paris urban walk through some of the picture-prettiest parts of Paris the last time around, today Easy Hiker will take you away from the sunny side of the street. “All cities are beautiful…
Paris Urban Walk I Walking Paris – The Artists of Montmartre The Parisian district of Montmartre has a unique position in art history. During one relatively short period in the late 19th and early 20th century, altogether not much longer than 20 years, nearly all the greatest painters of their time lived and painted here….
Urban Walking in Paris Some Themed Urban Walks in Paris There are times and occasions when it becomes simply impossible to have a civilized encounter with nature. When temperatures hover just above freezing, the wind is howling and the wet cold seeps under your skin, you would not dream of going on a “pleasure hike”…
Hiking in Germany Of all our major hikes in Germany, the only one I have never told you about is our trip to the Rothaarsteig. This is a rather odd omission because the trip was, in a way, the most important of them all: our first ever, our baptism of nature hike, if you so…
Walking in Paris Unable to plan a day hike recently, the Easy Hikers decided instead to take a short walk in a cold drizzly romantic Paris, following the “trail” most couples would do along the Avenue des Champs–Élysées leading up to the Concorde and the Jardins des Tuileries. Cold Drizzly Romantic Paris Planning a romantic getaway in…
What to See in Germany Himmler’s Last Crusade Whether you decide to take a half-day hike on the Jesuitenpfad or, like us, go for the “lazy” option of a short walk along the river Alme, Wewelsburg Castle will be the highlight of your trip to this part of the Paderborner Land. The original Wewelsburg castle was…
Day Hikes in Germany Hiking Past a Nazi Monument Considering the big shadow the Third Reich was once (and, up to a point, still is) casting over Germany, there are relatively few places in the country with a Nazi Monument that can still give you a whiff of that old Nazi sulphur. There are, specifically,…
Walking in Paris – Part 3 The Small Outdoors in Paris Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes Today, for the final part of our short series on Parisian parks*, where you can discover the small outdoors in Paris, I am going to take you a little bit further out. So far out in fact that…
A Totally Different Christmas Market What would Christmas be without Christmas markets? These fairs with their arts and crafts stalls, handmade candles, sticky candies and mulled wine have become such an integral part of the Western Christmas experience that we tend to forget how pagan they actually are – as pagan as, well, a Christmas…
Guest Post: Hiking in Romania by David Elliott Romania is the ideal country for great hiking trips, with a range of different landscapes from the soaring horseshoe of the Carpathian Mountains to vast plains and river valleys, not to mention some of the most stunning medieval castles on the planet. Like the other countries of…