Trail route and destination guides
The Camino Inglés and Camino del Mar: a complete planning guide
Dave Whitson opens his Cicerone guidebook by noting that the rain in Spain falls mainly in Galicia, and it's precisely that lush, green corner of Iberia that makes planning a...
An Introduction to The Cambrian Way
Are you an adventurous and experienced walker looking to discover Wales in a whole new way? Here's an introduction to the Cambrian Way – a challenging but rewarding long-distance route...
An Introduction to The Shropshire Way
The county of Shropshire has been one of England’s best kept secrets for years. It is England’s most rural county with only two large towns –Telford and Shrewsbury, but it...
The Snowdonia Way: everything you need to know
The Snowdonia Way is a fantastic long-distance walking trail that spans the full length of the National Park, offering a journey through diverse landscapes – mountains, valleys, woodlands, and coastline...
Walking through history: 7 ancient long-distance routes in the UK
The British Isles are packed with history, from ancient medieval abbeys to neolithic stone circles, from the finest surviving frontier work from any part of the classical Roman empire to...
An introduction to the Wales Coast Path
In May 2012, the Wales Coast Path (WCP) officially opened, and since then, outdoor enthusiasts have been running and walking the coastline. As the longest waymarked trail in Britain, the...
Walking in Derbyshire: a complete planning guide
Derbyshire is a county the Victorian critic John Ruskin praised for its compact variety, a landscape small enough to take in at a glance: gritstone edges and moorland giving way...
Trekking in Austria's Zillertal Alps: a complete planning guide
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...
Trekking in Austria's Hohe Tauern: a complete planning guide
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 mountain at 3798m. Trekking...
Walking in the West Pennine Moors: a complete planning guide
This planning guide covers everything you need to plan walking on the West Pennine Moors, based on Terry Marsh's 30-walk Cicerone guidebook. Marsh knows this landscape intimately: sombre gritstone moorland,...
Walking in the Forest of Bowland and Pendle: a complete planning guide
For generations, the word 'Lancashire' conjured smoky mill towns rather than wild moorland, and Terry Marsh's Walking in the Forest of Bowland and Pendle sets out to correct that picture....
Walking in the Lune Valley and Howgills: a complete planning guide
Set between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, the Lune Valley "begs discovery," and this planning guide will help you find the right walk among the 40 circular day...
Walking in the North Pennines: a complete planning guide
This is a region of superlatives: once the world's greatest producer of lead, home to England's most powerful waterfalls, and holder of several records for extreme weather. For years the...
Walking in the North York Moors: a complete planning guide
The moors of the North York Moors National Park are of no great height, yet they offer a wonderful sense of spaciousness, with extensive views opening out under a big...
Walking in County Durham: a complete planning guide
County Durham is, in Paddy Dillon's words, "a land of change": a richly wooded, ancient landscape running from the high Pennines in the west to a low cliff coast in...
St Oswald's Way: a complete planning guide
Stand on the craggy sandstone summit of the Simonside Hills, and on a clear day the whole of the Northumberland coast unfolds before you, drenched in mauve and gold. That...
Walking on Uist and Barra: a complete planning guide
This planning guide covers everything you need to know before walking on the Uists and Barra, islands that lie on the very edge of Europe, where the approach by air...
Walking on Jura, Islay and Colonsay: complete planning guide
Tucked away off the Kintyre peninsula, some 80km (50 miles) west of Glasgow as the crow flies, Jura, Islay and Colonsay sit apart from the routes that draw most walkers...
The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (GR70): a complete planning guide
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 become Travels with a...
Trekking in the Apennines: a complete planning guide
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 mountain chain...
The Walker's Haute Route (Chamonix to Zermatt): a complete planning guide
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...
Walking in the Bavarian Alps: a complete planning guide
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...
Hiking the High Scardus Trail: a complete planning guide
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 Macedonia, Kosovo and...
Walking on Harris and Lewis: a complete planning guide
Getting to Harris and Lewis costs more, and takes longer, than a flight to the guaranteed warmth of southern Europe, and once you're there the weather is unlikely to cooperate...