European trekking ideas
European Trekking ideas
Easy first treks:
Some of the easier trekking routes in Europe are through hilly rather than mountainous terrain, such as The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (new edition to be published at the end of this year), or The Cathar Way, a fascinating route visiting many of the finest Cathar castles in the region.
Slightly harder, but fairly short week or ten-day treks could include some of the treks in Walking on Corsica, Trekking in the Stubai Alps, Trekking in the Zillertal Alps, The Tour of the Jungfrau Region, and Tour of Mont Blanc.
Those looking for greater challenges, either in length or difficulty can pick from a huge variety of trekking guides, including favourites such as the GR10 and GR11 in the Pyrenees, the GR5 , Chamonix to Zermatt, Treks in the Dolomites (AV1 and AV2) and the GR20 in Corsica. Less busy routes we suggest you try are Trekking in the Appenines (friendly people, great food and hardy anyone there - takes about three weeks), Across the Eastern Alps: The E5, another long trek, Trekking in the Vosges and Jura (the northern section of the GR5), or the traverse of the Pindos mountains in The Mountains of Greece.
