Until my recent trip the only information I had about Bulgaria was from friends who had been there skiing.  There views were not always com...

Someone asked me the other day what I had learnt from walking across Europe.  Not an easy question but it kicked a conversation, made me th...

One of the great pleasures of a long distance walk like the E4 is the chance to experience the full range of different types of accommo...

By the time I got to Kozeg I was obsessed with getting home and could only think about finishing the walk.  My pre-occupation with the end...

Stage 8 provides a high level description of my walk along the E4 from Lodeve on the southern edge of the Massif Central to Chateauneuf du-...

The 600 kilometres through the region of Valencia (which includes the provinces of Valencia, Castellon and Alicante) involved some of t...

After 26 days walking through Andalucia I had belatedly started to work out just how long the E4 was.  The euphoria which had driven me alo...

From Villanueva de Cauche you have a northern and a southern option for the GR7/E4.  I chose the northern option, which is generally descri...

It's over. Six months, 5000 kilometres, starting in the extreme south west of Europe with winter turning to spring and finishing in Hu...

Brilliant penultimate day's walk capped by some wonderful Hungarian hospitality and kindness. Now I'm so close to Budapest I'...