Walking near Paris A Hiking Trail in Chantilly This time, our Paris hike brings us to a hiking trail in Chantilly, 30 minutes by train from the Gare du Nord, for a short hike of two hours with much to see on the way – particularly for people with at least a passing interest in…
Hiking near Paris Chevreuse and our Beaujolais Nouveau Hike Out of all the walks we have done in Paris, the Chevreuse walk is the best. It provides a balanced blend of the rustic and the civilized, the rough and the smooth, nature and culture. (A perfect easy hiking trail near Paris.) To anybody staying in…
Guest Post: Easy hiking in France by Thomas Dowson There is no better place to bring easy hiking, culture and stunning scenery together than along the Upper Normandy coastline in France. Here, in that part of Normandy north of the Seine River, you will find dramatic white chalky cliffs with pebble beaches and small fishing…
St Germain en Laye Over the weekend, taking advantage of the last mild days before winter temperatures set in, we went on an easy hike in St Germain en Laye, a few minutes by train from Paris. The short hiking trail was around the Chateau de St Germain en Laye. To wind up the hike, we chose to…
Easy Hiking Companions And Fellow Travellers A Traveler’s Library Vera Marie Badertscher is a freelance writer who travels when she can and reads all the time Backpacking Worldwide Matt decided to first travel before hunkering down to study law Bacon Is Magic Bitten by the travel bug at age 16 Ayngelina decided to take a…
If you have no time for a long hike, a walk in the park (or as I would like to call it, an easy hike) will do just fine – particularly, if it’s the right park. Alex has got the right address for you. Hiking San Francisco A guest post by Alex Genadinik One of…
Go Easy Hiking in Germany Germany is Europe’s most underrated tourist destination This is just another way of saying Germany is simply not sexy. It is terminally uncool, near the bottom of the European razzle-dazzle league, somewhere alongside Belgium or Finland. If you don’t believe me, just conduct a simple experiment. Tell your friends you…
Hiking in Germany The Black Forest Westweg The Trail Westweg: 13 stages and 280 km through theBlack Forest, from Pforzheim in the North to the Swiss city of Basel in the South. Profile The Black Forest is the most famous of all German Mittelgebirge (literally “mountains of medium size”), the country’s sub-Alpine mountain ranges. It is…
