Category: Hiking
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Hiking At The Col De La Cayolle, France
Hiking the Cayolle Pass in the South of France You may remember last week that I told you all about a quest we went on to find the source of the Var River. The day after discovering the tiny puddle that the big river stems from, we decided to go for a glorious…
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Snow-Shoeing In The Susa Valley, Italy
Snow-shoeing, appendicitis, and roundabouts So, decadently holidaying and snowshoeing wasn’t actually where I was last week. This was a little jaunt I went on about a month ago at the same time I was watching other people ski while drinking a Bombardino or two. Last week I was actually in hospital with my eldest…
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The Mercantour: Hiking To The Refuge De Nice
In the Summer we do an annual pilgrimage to the Mercantour National Park which straddles the border between France and Italy. If you click on these links and you can read about our adventure with army jeeps and cows that blocked bridges, and about the time we went to Allos Lake high in the mountains and…
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The Drôme: Exploring The Magical Saoù Forest
Hiking In The Drôme As promised, here is Part III of the fabulous trip we took to The Drôme recently! To catch up on the previous ravings about the area, you can click on these links to read about the villages we visited and the wine festival we bumped into while we were there.…
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The Wild Side Of The Cote d’Azur, France
Hiking Up The Haut Montet I’ve been looking at this huge ball perched on top of a mountain behind our village in France for years, and wondering about it. We affectionately started to call the mountain “Football Mountain”, which I think should be its official name instead of Le Haut Montet. Finally,…
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The Hidden Side Of The Cote d’Azur
Hiking Up The Pic Des Courmettes If you are ever staying on the Cote d’Azur in the South of France and want to get away from the crowds and bling of the coast for a while, the Pic des Courmettes is the answer to your need for a little peace. You can look down on…
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Getting Lost in The Valley of Allos
Discovering the french alps with wine and without a bicycle I’m actually working my way backward through our trip to the area of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence that we did a few weeks ago before the Summer holidays finished and things got crazy again. If you click on the link above, you can see exactly…
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The Day I Took A Hike In The Mercantour
Here’s something a little different for this week. I would like to write about a stunning National Park in France, near where we live called the Mercantour. The park straddles the range of mountains that divide France and Italy down near the coast. We decided that we needed some fresh air (the…
