If the weather had been normal Day 4 on the Camino Portugués would have been fine, more challenging than the first three days but doable.  W...

Day 3 makes the transition from a landscape dominated by the River Tagus and its huge and intensively farmed flood plain, to something much ...

Today's ride was a hot slog on mainly gravel tracks through the flat river plain north east to Santarém. Walking this stretch must be so...

Day 1 was much better than I was anticipating. There was a lot of the urban sprawl you would expect around a capital city: the mix of new de...

Tomorrow we set off on a 28 day tour of Northern Portugal and a bit of Northwest Spain.  The plan is to cycle the Camino Portuguese Central ...

So the idea of walking from Munich to Venice across the Alps has sparked your interest; you've had a look at my blog about how tough i...

  To be honest I feel mixed emotions when a walker using a guide points out a route change (thanks Amir).  On the one hand, a bit of my prec...