I don’t remember when I learned that Canada had a pair of French Islands off the Newfoundland coast, but I...
Europe
Hiking on Gran Canaria was better than I expected. However, what I didn’t realize before we visited was what a...
Hiking in La Gomera exceeded my expectations. The bar was set high as I’d first heard about La Gomera from a book author who writes about the best hikes in the Canadian Rockies. I trust his opinion, but the island wasn’t quite what I expected. It was better. The hiking...
The Kungsleden Trail – also called The King’s Trail, stretches for over 400 kilometres in northern Sweden from Abisko in...
When John and I were planning our hiking trip to Norway and Sweden, we started looking at the region in...
Located in southern Poland, Krakow is one of Eastern Europe’s many hidden gems. Its old medieval architecture blends well with the more modern remnants of the city’s time under communist control, – one of the reasons why Krakow attracts visitors from all over the world. Krakow offers so much more...
Three days of biking in the South Bohemian region of Czechia merely whet my appetite for what’s available in the...
South Bohemia is a beautiful area south of Prague that largely flies under the radar of foreign tourists – save...
The Via Alpina in Switzerland is a long distance hiking trail made up of three distinct sections covering different parts of the country. John and I hiked six of the 20 one-day stages that make up the 390 kilometre red trail route. This part of the Via Alpina hike starts...
“Let’s go on a hiking trip together sometime,” my friend Susan suggested. My response was immediate: “Where? When?” We decided...