Hiking in SpaiN To start off the New Year, I will tell you about a hike we did NOT do. In Mallorca, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man should have done the Torrent de Pareis hike at least once in his life. Or so we were told when we arrived in Sa…
Hiking in the South of France Gorbio – A French Riviera Hinterland Today’s walk is the perfect daytrip for visitors of the French Riviera who want to get a first impression of the arrière-pays, the mountainous hinterland of the coastal strip between Cannes and Menton. The trail leads – across a distance of roughly 6 km…
Gran Canaria Walking Festival Caving in for Gran Canaria on the last hike Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them, says George Santayana, and you know what: he was right. Things are coming full circle: you may remember that I started the Gran Canaria Walking Festival by forgetting…
Gran Canaria Walking Festival Gran Canaria – Hotel Las Calas We just arrived in Gran Canaria, late last night, all ready for the Walking Festival that will start today. We have not seen a lot of the Gran Canaria landscape, of course, in fact little more than the vegetation which lines the street on the…
Hiking in Mallorca Hiking in Mallorca in Ermita de Betlem Mallorca is a small island and nearly as densely populated as Holland, without even counting the 9 million visitors who come here each year. So it’s all the more striking if you consider that you can walk for hours in the Park Natural de Llevant…
Hiking in India Everyone Wants to Go to India One of the most frequently asked questions in our in-tray is about hiking trails in India. I am not surprised. After all, everybody wants to go to India, right? I myself have wanted to go for many years, ((and I know that I can get flights to India…
Hiking in Holland Hiking in Holland on the Traders’ Trail The Handelsweg – the “traders’ trail” – leads you across a distance of 230 km from Osnabrück (in Germany) to Deventer (in the Netherlands) through northern Westphalia and the two Dutch provinces of Twente and Salland. It is essentially a combination of two older trails,…
Easy Hiking in the South of France Oligarch for a Day in Cap Martin One thing many people know about the French Riv is that it’s for millionaires only. When I told my 87-year-old mum, God bless her, that we were moving there, she cried. She could not help it, she explained: the thought of…
Hiking Reads Summer has – finally! – arrived in Europe, and not a moment too soon, just in time for the peak of the holiday season. For hikers, however, temperatures above 30° centigrade (that’s the high 80s and 90s for you) are a mixed blessing. For some trails, perhaps even for all trails, this is…
Holidays in the Netherlands Biking or Hiking At the end of our visit to the Netherlands, I finally had to concede defeat. We were leaving the country in the sad realization that the Dutch will never take to hiking in a major way. Never will hiking be the preferred choice of the Dutch for moving about…
