Walking in Gower: a complete planning guide

Walking in Gower: a complete planning guide

This planning guide draws on Andy Davies' Cicerone guidebook to help you plan a walking trip to a peninsula that, as the author puts it, packs a glittering array of...

The Cicerone App

The Cicerone App

Cicerone’s gold-standard guides, now digital Our story began fifty years ago, when a pair of climbers, frustrated by the lack of reliable guides, decided to make their own. From a...

Walking on the Isles of Scilly: a complete planning guide

Walking on the Isles of Scilly: a complete planning guide

The Isles of Scilly are as close to a tropical paradise as anywhere gets in the British Isles: turquoise seas, white sand beaches and rugged granite headlands rising from the...

Walking in the Chilterns: a complete planning guide

Walking in the Chilterns: a complete planning guide

Inspired by Steve Davison's Cicerone guidebook, this planning guide provides everything you need to know about walking in the Chiltern Hills, from where to stay and the best time to...

Walking in Derbyshire: a complete planning guide

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Cycling La Vélodyssée: a complete planning guide

Cycling La Vélodyssée: a complete planning guide

La Vélodyssée is a 1302km cycling odyssey along the Atlantic coast of France, following the French section of EuroVelo 1 from the Channel port of Roscoff in Brittany to Hendaye...

Cycling the Camino de Santiago: a complete planning guide

Cycling the Camino de Santiago: a complete planning guide

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 riders to...

Walking on Uist and Barra: a complete planning guide

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

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

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

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...

Cycling the Pennine Bridleway: a complete planning guide

Cycling the Pennine Bridleway: a complete planning guide

Running along the spine of England from Rochdale to the edge of the Yorkshire Dales and on into Cumbria, the Pennine Bridleway was purpose-built for mountain bikers, and it shows:...

The Walker's Haute Route (Chamonix to Zermatt): a complete planning guide

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

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

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...