Easy hiking in Spain La Fosca in the Costa Brava La Fosca had been recommended to us. It is not a place where one would wind up otherwise. Remember this: Next time you travel through Catalonia or anywhere along the Costa Brava, make room in your itinerary for a trip to La Fosca. Take this…
Where to Go in Germany Bacharach in Half a Day Rick Steves, in one of his “Europe in the blink of an eye” itineraries that Europeans feel so smug about, suggests to his readers to spend two nights in the Rhineland town of Bacharach, as much time as you are allowed to dedicate to Venice…
Where to Go in Germany Neustadt If you hike anywhere in southwest Germany, you are bound to come across Neustadt sooner or later – most likely to change trains or to take a bus, because it is the main hub of the local public transport network. The temptation is to leave it at that, possibly…
Got two hours in Nice? The French Riviera is best understood not as a region or an area but as a single town, a thin coastal strip of settlements never more than a kilometre deep that is stretched out over a distance of 50 miles, like an extruded French version of Los Angeles. With two…
Two Things Defining Easy Hiking 1. It is hiking or walking along a trail where you don’t need a compass and where the wildest animal you are likely to meet is a wild rabbit. (A fox and a boar, in theory, but in practice, you will never see them.) Where you can be confident that nothing…
First Considerations if Easy Hiking 1. How fit do you have to be to go easy hiking? One reason why many people do not pick up hiking is very simple. They are afraid they are not up to it. Let’s be honest: if you have been officially categorized as morbidly obese and are short of breath…
Urban Walks in the French Riviera Our one-week stay in Antibes has allowed us to savour the place like a real local. We managed to do leisurely strolls in and around the town in the evenings on days our hiking excursions were not too demanding. On one of those strolls, we discovered the charming alleys…
Easy hikes in the South of France Oh, Yes We Cannes Cannes was the final stop on our recent hiking trip to the South of France. We did indeed manage to do some easy hiking in the Iles de Lerins, but, to be honest, not all that much. Apologies all around, but on the final…
Easy hiking in the South of France The French Riviera is not all of one piece and offers quite a lot of variety along its coastline of roughly 150 miles between Hyeres and Menton: geographical variety, cultural variety, even climatic variety, but most importantly, a stark contrast between the Plebeian and the Princely. The French Riviera…
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…