Walks near Paris A Walk through a Paris Working Class Suburb Having visited the Ile de Brise a few weeks ago, we are inviting you to follow us today on another spontaneous walking trip to the outskirts of Paris – one with a difference, however, inasmuch as we will be climbing down several notches on…
Paris Urban Walk III The first two episodes in this short series of Paris walks took their cues from paintings and historic photos. This Paris urban walk shall be guided by words. A Paris Urban Walk with Hemingway’s Moveable Feast I would like to invite you to follow me on a literary walk through the…
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”…
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…
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…
Walking in Paris – Part 2 For part two of our post on about walking in Paris in its parks, we take you a little further out of the city centre. Parc des Buttes Chaumont Where? In the northeast of the city, a couple of blocks away from the Canal de la Villette. How to…
Walking in Paris – Part 1 Parisian Parks to Choose From Keep it short, keep it urban: that was the general advice I gave you a few posts ago for walks and hikes during the cold season. Walking in Parisian parks would do the trick! For many people, of course, that is the motto for…
Hiking trails near Paris Discover Hiking Rural France It never fails to amaze me how profonde – how deeply, relentlessly rural – France can be as little as one hour away from Paris. Today’s walk – which features some pretty and prosperous farms, some new, some hundreds of years old – could serve as a…
