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  • View toward Paul do Mar at the start of PR19
     

    5 hikes in Madeira you can enjoy even if you’re not fit

    21st December 2019 / Destinations, Europe, Portugal / 7 comments

    You’ve heard that Madeira is a great hiking destination and you’ve seen pictures of the crazy terrain? Yup it’s all mountains! Now you wonder if you’re fit enough to do any of those hikes in […]

     
     
  • Camino de Santiago
     

    Hiking the Camino de Santiago solo – an interview

    29th August 2017 / Interviews, Solo travel / 2 comments

    The Camino de Santiago is an old pilgrims’ route that starts across the Pyrénées in southwestern France, crosses the north of Spain, and ends in Santiago de Compostela, a distance of 780 kilometres. It’s a […]

     
     
  • Volcan del Cuervo, Lanzarote
     

    Walking among volcanoes on Lanzarote

    1st February 2017 / Destinations, Europe, Spain / 0 comments

    The southwest of the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands brings to mind the surface of an alien planet, covered in lava fields and dozens of volcanic cones. You half expect to find a […]

     
     
  • Posing with the Foresta Lumina sign
     

    A week-end in Quebec’s Coaticook Valley

    19th September 2016 / Canada, Destinations, North America / 0 comments

    When I told my childhood friend in Quebec that we should do something special to celebrate our 40 years of friendship, she suggested Coaticook, an area she knows well. Located in the valley of the […]

     
     
  • Palm Beach, Waiheke, New Zealand
     

    Exploring Waiheke without a car

    15th December 2015 / Destinations, New Zealand, Oceania / 5 comments

    Waiheke Island, a 35-minute ferry ride from downtown Auckland is a favourite week-end and holiday destination for New Zealanders and foreigners in the know. Featuring rolling hills, forests, beaches, and a heavily indented coastline that […]

     
     
  • Landscape from the viewpoint (Llano Grande)
     

    Hiking in the mountains around Oaxaca

    1st March 2015 / Destinations, Mexico, North America, On the road / 1 comment

    Over the last couple of weeks, I made three trips into the mountains around Oaxaca. It can be tough going once you start to drive up the narrow and twisty mountain roads, but the reward […]

     
     
  • Looking back toward Capileira
     

    Capileira – a village in the clouds

    18th October 2014 / Destinations, Europe, On the road, Spain / 1 comment

    Last Sunday we rode the bus from Granada to Capileira, a small town of 600 in the Alpujarras mountains. It rained the whole two hours and a half, as the bus negotiated increasingly tighter curves […]

     
     
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