2018 Chanticleer I & I Grand Prize Book Award Winner
Move over traditional sightseeing, throngs of visitors, and tourist
traps! Explore Europe on Foot gives travelers an alternative way to
discover Europe. A hiking vacation offers countless rewards: the time to
admire the tidiness of a village farm, soak in the rugged alpine view
from a rocky perch, and absorb a country through the smells of its
landscape and encounters with locals. Explore Europe on Foot is a
complete guide to conceptualizing, planning, and executing the
slow-travel hike (or hikes!) of a lifetime.
Author Cassandra Overby tells you how you can spend all, or even just
part, of your vacation enjoying scenery, small towns, and cultural
experiences most travelers miss--all without carrying a big backpack.
This guide offers all the nuts and bolts you need: how to choose a route
that is right for you, how to plan, what to pack, what to expect, how to
find accommodations and food, how to deal with challenges along the way,
and so much more. These aren't wilderness backpacking trips, but rather
a wide range of town-to-town walks that offer the opportunity to have an
authentic, affordable, restorative vacation.
Travelers will also appreciate overviews of fifteen long-distance trails
in Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Morocco, Portugal,
Spain, Switzerland, and Turkey, with itineraries that range from one to
fifteen days. For those unwilling to go all-in, Cassandra also offers
tips on incorporating day-hike outings into a more traditional vacation.
The focus is on how to craft that more immersive vacation so users of
the guide will be able to apply what they learn to their own dream
destinations.
15 Handpicked Walks include: Rota Vicentina, Portugal English Way, Spain
Mont Saint-Michel, France Alsace Wine Route, France Tour du Mont Blanc,
France and Italy Cinque Terre 2.0, Italy Lycian Way, Turkey Alpine Pass
Route, Switzerland King Ludwig's Way, Germany The Moselle, Germany The
Ardennes, Luxembourg and Belgium The Lake District, England, UK West
Highland Way, Scotland, UK Laugavegur Trek, Iceland The Sahara Desert,
Morocco
