Feature · 29 Dec 2019
What Cicerone staff have been doing this year... 2019
Everyone who works at Cicerone is a bit of a fleece-wearing outdoor adventure junkie and we try to practice what we preach. Here's what we've all been up to in 2019.
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Feature · 15 Dec 2019
My walk from Sheffield to Santiago: Part 2
Anne Sheehan recounts the second part of her walk from her home in Sheffield to Santiago de Compostela in Northern Spain.
Video · 17 Nov 2019
Explore the world with a Cicerone guidebook
Choose a Cicerone guidebook for your activities - guidebooks cover walking, trekking, climbing, scrambling, trail running, cycling, mountain biking and more. There are hundreds of...
Article · 9 Jun 2019
Ruta do Mar: linking the Camino del Norte and Camino Inglés
Dave Whitson describes a newly recovered pilgrimage route in northwestern Spain that offers a stunning coastal connection between the Camino del Norte and the Camino Inglés...
Feature · 1 Jun 2019
Walking 1000 miles across France and Spain on the Camino de Santiago
Anna Blackwell describes spending her summer holiday walking over 1000 miles across France and Spain. Following ancient pilgrimage routes that make up the Camino de Santiago, she...
Article · 11 May 2019
Making the Camino del Norte your own
Spain’s Camino del Norte enjoys some of the most stunning scenery of any pilgrimage. While beaches, coastal views and verdant peaks are frequent fixtures of the official route, the Norte also benefits from an abundance of alternative tracks,...
Feature · 10 Feb 2019
A winter camino... On Gran Canaria
After finding the summer heat insufferable on his first trip along the Camino de Santiago in Spain, Paddy Dillon decided to try a cooler alternative on Gran Canaria.
Article · 2 Jan 2019
Celebrating Fifty Years... Enduring Cicerone titles
If you look on the website, you will see that Cicerone has an enviable, and really quite staggering, collection of nearly 400 titles, available as both printed books and e-books...
Feature · 30 Dec 2018
What Cicerone staff have been doing this year... 2018
Everyone who works at Cicerone is a bit of a fleece-wearing outdoor adventure junkie and we try to practice what we preach. Here's what we've all been up to in 2018.
Article · 8 Dec 2018
Cicerone Press at 50: From then to now
In this abridged extract from Fifty Years of Adventure, Kev Reynolds and Jonathan Williams look back at Cicerone's story, from then to now.
Article · 25 Jul 2018
4 spiritual reasons to walk the Way of St Francis: Florence to Assisi
Ben Cottam and Giles Story walked the 285km section from Florence to Assisi, rather faster than recommended, over nine days in early May this year, armed with Rev Sandy Brown’s...
Article · 30 Jun 2018
Discovering the joy of long-distance pilgrimage walking and why one camino is never enough.
Sandy Brown reflects on the importance of a camino. Whether you walk the camino for religious, spiritual, adventurous or other reasons, the camino is sure to have a profound...
Feature · 9 Jun 2018
All you need to know about the Camino Portugués or the Portuguese Way
In 2017, the Camino Portugués and the Coastal Camino attracted a total of over 66,000 walkers. So, what makes these trails so special? Lisa Gibbons, from Camino Ways, takes a...
Feature · 19 May 2018
Camino Portugués – Should You Walk the Central or Coastal Camino from Porto?
Offering stunning views and an abundance of historical sites, it can be hard to choose between the Central and Coastal Camino. Fortunately, link routes mean you can combine the...
Feature · 28 Feb 2018
An intro to… The Way of St James - France
An intro to… The Way of St James - France, answering questions like 'What's so special about St James?', 'What does the scallop shell mean?' and 'How fit do I need to be?'.
Feature · 4 Aug 2016
Trekking the Camino Aragon
Last year we found a brochure offering a pilgrimage on the 200km Aragon Route, a side arm of the Camino de Santiago or Way of St James in Spain. Most pilgrims take the Camino Frances from St Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela. The Camino...