203 articles found
Article · 31 Jul 2026
Janette Norton's Cicerone guidebook covers 30 walks across three very different landscapes in eastern Provence: the red-rock Estérel coast, the wild Alpes de Haute-Provence, and...
Article · 30 Jul 2026
Rudolf Abraham has been walking the mountains of the Balkans for more than two decades, and his guidebook, Hiking the High Scardus Trail, is the first to cover this remote 314km...
Article · 29 Jul 2026
Drive south past Montélimar on the Autoroute du Soleil and, just after the sign announcing Vous êtes en Provence, the light itself seems to change: clearer, brighter, edged with...
Article · 27 Jul 2026
Article · 22 Jul 2026
Slovenia may be one of Europe's smallest countries, but the Slovene Mountain Trail (Slovenska planinska pot, or Transverzala) packs an extraordinary range of landscape into its...
Article · 21 Jul 2026
Deep in the Austrian Tirol, the Zillertal is a 50km dead-end valley that opens out into one of the Eastern Alps' great hut-to-hut playgrounds, with over a dozen huts strung across...
Article · 20 Jul 2026
The Hohe Tauern National Park is the largest national park in continental Europe, a vast wilderness of glaciated 3000m peaks centred on the Grossglockner, Austria's highest...
Article · 9 Jul 2026
Every year thousands of cyclists set off from St Jean-Pied-de-Port in the French Pyrenees to follow the Camino Francés, the medieval pilgrim road that has drawn walkers and...
Article · 7 Jul 2026
In September 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson set off from Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille with a stubborn donkey called Modestine, on a 12-day journey through the Cévennes that would...
Article · 6 Jul 2026
Chamonix to Zermatt, Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn: two of the greatest names in mountaineering linked by 14 days of high alpine travel. The Walker's Haute Route crosses 215km (134...
Article · 6 Jul 2026
Few long-distance trails in Europe deserve the word epic quite like the High Scardus Trail (HST). Running for 314km (195 miles) through the mountainous borderlands of North...
Article · 2 Jul 2026
The Apennines, the rugged spine that runs the length of the Italian peninsula, are without doubt Italy's best-kept walking secret. While the Alps draw the crowds, this elongated...
Article · 30 Jun 2026
The Grande Traversata delle Alpi (GTA) is one of the great alpine treks: 809km and over 57,000m of ascent and descent, crossing Italy from the Swiss border in the high Alps all...
Article · 29 Jun 2026
Portugal's southernmost region is far more than its famous sandy beaches suggest. The Algarve offers 32 graded day walks ranging from 4 to 18km (2 to 11 miles), taking walkers...
Article · 29 Jun 2026
Slovenia's Julian Alps are not as high as their western Alpine relations, but they are no less imposing. Limestone peaks plunge into flower meadows, waterfalls cascade from cliffs...
Article · 26 Jun 2026
The Bavarian Alps stretch along Germany's southern border with Austria, from the Allgäu in the west to Berchtesgaden in the east — a 300km arc of mountain scenery that offers...
Article · 24 Jun 2026
Just a few hundred metres from Andalucia's famous beaches, the mountains of the Subbetica range rise steeply from the coast to offer some of the finest walking in southern Europe...
Article · 19 Jun 2026
Glorious Tuscany is one of the world's most beautiful walking destinations. Gently rolling hills clothed with fields of golden wheat and scarlet poppies, winding lanes lined with...
Article · 19 Jun 2026
The Camino Francés is the most legendary, most travelled, and most revered of the Camino de Santiago's many routes. The 'French Way' begins on the French slopes of the Pyrenees...
Article · 18 Jun 2026
Trekking across the French Alps between Lake Geneva and Nice sounds daunting even for experienced long-distance walkers. But step back and put it in perspective: well-graded...