105 articles found
Feature · 1 May 2025
Thru-hikes can be especially difficult to plan due to the logistics of getting to the start point and then back from the endpoint, especially when travelling solo by car. However,...
Feature · 26 Jul 2023
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 · 1 Jun 2023
Guy Hunter Watts, lover of Andalusia and author of 5 Cicerone guides to the region, died in early May, aged 64.
Feature · 11 May 2023
The Pyrenees, bordering France and Spain and rising over 3000m, stretch over 400km from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and offer a diverse range of walking experiences. The...
Feature · 7 Nov 2022
Der Traumpfad is a must-do trek for walkers looking for an epic trans-alpine adventure between Munich and Venice, combining challenging terrain, spectacular scenery and culture.
Feature · 8 Oct 2022
Cicerone's Louise Dickie never thought she'd be a fan of wild swimming, but now she takes a cold water dip nearly every week. Here's how she got started and caught on to the wild...
Feature · 22 Nov 2021
La Palma boasts two long-distance walking routes: The GR130 (aka the Camino Real de la Costa) and the high-level GR131. Looking for a winter sun hiking trip, Tom Martens packed...
Feature · 23 Oct 2021
Jake Meyer, one of the youngest Britons to climb Everest, and the youngest man in the world to complete the Seven Summits, undertook his biggest challenge when he faced The Savage Mountain, K2.
Feature · 7 Aug 2021
Part passion project, part conservation scheme, part showcase of community activism, British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast Trail was conceived in the early 1990s and has gradually grown in length and ambition to become Canada’s longest hut-to-hut...
Feature · 29 May 2021
Lesley and Jonathan Williams headed to the Valais region in the heart of the Swiss Alps Walking in Zermatt and Saas-Fee
Feature · 27 Mar 2021
2021 sees the 70th anniversary of the UK’s first national parks. Here, Cicerone's Natalie Simpson takes a look back at the campaign for their creation and the legislation that...
Feature · 13 Feb 2021
The Lake District offers many scrambles, ranging from family-friendly rambles to iconic routes suitable only for experienced climbers. In his two guidebooks to 'Scrambles in the...
Feature · 27 Dec 2020
Combining camping, walking and kayaking, Alex Kendall set out on a packrafting expedition to explore the peninsulas and fjords of Senja island in Norway.
Feature · 5 Dec 2020
Andy Hodges, author of the Cicerone guidebook Trekking the Giants' Trail and an International Mountain Leader, took a group of nine students and two staff from Coombe Dean School,...
Feature · 1 Nov 2020
Frank Husslage took his skis and went for a five-day winter trip in the Norwegian snow. Allergic to crowds of any kind, Frank found a region ideal for people with this specific affliction: Huldreheimen, a little unknown gem between the more popular...
Feature · 27 Sept 2020
The best walks go all the way across, says Cicerone author Ronald Turnbull. Having crossed Highland Scotland nine times, he offers a few suggestions for a successful and enjoyable trip.
Feature · 23 Aug 2020
The Overland Track journeys through one of Tasmania's diverse natural areas, Cradle Mountain–Lake St Clair National Park. Cicerone author Warwick Sprawson explores how Kate...
Feature · 15 Aug 2020
Cicerone author and walking guide Gilly Cameron-Cooper has watched Greece's Cycladic islands emerge as a charming but challenging hiking destination
Feature · 8 Jul 2020
OK, Cicerone’s Jonathan Williams didn’t really walk the Tour du Mont Blanc backwards, he just went the 'wrong' way round...
Feature · 1 Jun 2020
We all love to take photos of the outdoors - whether that’s from a garden or hill-top, or just of our efforts to be outside, and a modern smartphone can be a really good option...