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...

Today we walked from Muxia to Nemiña, a tough stretch of walking but excellent. The weather was perfect, the scenery was fantastic and we ...

Today's walk was huge in every sense of the word, huge scenery, huge distance and hugely knackered at the end. Ancient fields near...

Day 3 on the Camiño Dos Faros and a great day's walking, approaching epic! Early morning near  The big change, after yesterday, ...

The last day of the hike through Castellón is both a suitable climax to the whole trip and somehow, in a single day, sums up what makes wa...

It is possible to walk all the way to Morella in a day, but it is a very big day (I’ve done it twice).  The total walk is 34km and takes a...

After a day spent in Vistabella del Maestrazgo , with a little detour up the Penyagolosa, it’s back to business as usual and another march...

It’s possible to take ‘place-to-place’ walking too literally and go crashing on to the next town missing out on local treats.  At Vistabel...

If you're a walker like me who is looking a challenge, somewhere different and not yet 'fashionable', and a route that takes yo...

Europeans have access to great walking right on their doorstep.  It's the continent for 'easy walking' - where walkers can tra...

I'm committed to writing a guide on the GR1 Sendero Histórico for Cicerone.  Great fun but a lot of work and just a bit of reschedulin...

Weather wise it's different but not really any better. The cold north wind which dominated yesterday has abated; today it's been a...

Today I wasn't expecting a great deal. The weather forecast had been terrible and from the initial look out of the window it looked ri...

Big walk today, 43 kilometres with around 2,000 metres of ascent and descent. It was also another gloomy one with showers on a cold win...

The E4 through Catalonia was worse part of the whole trip.  Accommodation was hard to find and I had to walk very long days.  Worse sti...

I published a whole series of stage plans before I started the E4 and these attracted some really helpful comments.  What I'm now tedi...

After a week of really good walking, Christine has gone back to the UK and I'm on my own again. It's been great going from mountai...

Last night we lay in bed and listened to the rain pour down. The weather forecast was bad and it seemed unlikely that Christine, without fu...

Not sure what happened to my first version of the diary entry for April the 16th, it literally went missing between sending it from my IPad...

Didn't get quite get as far as I had planned today but then perhaps the plan was just a bit too ambitious. Had originally hoped to get...