If you did not catch this week's New York Times article on walking the 35-mile perimeter of Paris, you can catch it here. While the author doesn't mention it specifically, it appears he followed the GR2024, deemed the only 100% Parisian long distance footpath. While...
The northern part of the Spanish island of Mallorca boasts spectacular scenery. You can view my photos from Mallorca here. My day-by-day itinerary can be found under Longer Trip Itineraries. For this 5-night/6-day trip, we flew out of Paris and back to Nantes as we...
In January, my mom and I took a 6-day trip to the island of Terceira, in the Azores. Terceira combines colonial Portuguese architecture, Portuguese cuisine, green landscapes reminiscent of Ireland and a volcanic geological history that is still very evident today. You...
My photos from my August GR34 hike are up! You can view all my photos from Vitré (Ille-et-Vilaine) to Le Bono (Morbihan) HERE. Concarneau at sunrise I estimate that I've now hiked about 1,191 miles out of a total of approximately 1,500 miles of coastline, including...
I've made it home. Essentially. Lunch This past Tuesday morning, I hiked to the Le Bono, just next door to my Brittany home base of Baden. Pointe de Trévignon I had originally planned to finish this leg of the coast of Brittany on Sunday, August 13th in Lorient, and...
These last nearly two weeks, I've been working on my goal of hiking the entire coast of Brittany. This time, I'm making my way from Crozon to Lorient, finishing up the Finistère section of the GR34. I should arrive in Lorient this Sunday evening. That will leave just...
I finished another 11-day leg of the Brittany coastal trail, the GR34, last month. I estimate that I'm now about 3/5 done with the 1,200-or-so mile-long GR34. You can see my photos of the coast from Vitré through Landévennec here. In this stage, I hiked from Morlaix...
Three years ago, some friends and I rented a wonderful chalet in Chamonix, at the base of Mont-Blanc, Europe's tallest mountain at 4,809 meters (15,777 feet). Last month, we returned (and wondered why it had taken us three years!) Lac Blanc hike It would be hard to...
You may remember that one of my current "projects" is to hike the whole coast of Brittany. I'm guessing it's almost 2,000 kilometers (1,200+ miles) in total. But I'm not in any rush! I did seven more days in mid-August and although I'm probably only 1/3 of the way...
In November 2014, I started a long-term project of hiking the coast of Brittany. The trail goes by many names: sentier côtier, sentier or chemin des douaniers, sentier littoral and grande randonnée 34 ("GR34"). I decided to start my hike at the beginning of the GR34,...
