easy hiker https://easyhiker.co.uk/ adventures for beginners Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:49:16 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://easyhiker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/cropped-easy-hiker-5-32x32.jpg easy hiker https://easyhiker.co.uk/ 32 32 La Spezia: The Modern Face of Italy https://easyhiker.co.uk/la-spezia-the-modern-face-of-italy/ https://easyhiker.co.uk/la-spezia-the-modern-face-of-italy/#respond Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:49:13 +0000 https://easyhiker.co.uk/?p=43509 La Spezia is that rare kind of thing: a tourist town without tourist attractions. The town is full of visitors who have travelled there halfway across Europe – some of them halfway across the world – not to visit and experience La Spezia but to use the town as a base for explorations of the...

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]]> https://easyhiker.co.uk/la-spezia-the-modern-face-of-italy/feed/ 0 Towards Tellaro! https://easyhiker.co.uk/towards-tellaro/ https://easyhiker.co.uk/towards-tellaro/#respond Sun, 31 May 2026 14:39:09 +0000 https://easyhiker.co.uk/?p=43481 … domes of foliage from which burst forth a polyphony of lemons and oranges and the ephemeral veil of a foam,of a sea powder that no human foot has ever touched or seems about to, but unfortunately the train accelerates ...Towards Tellaro by Eugenio Montale There are about 350 members in the federation of the Borghi Piu Belli d’Italia...

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]]> https://easyhiker.co.uk/towards-tellaro/feed/ 0 Lerici and the Gulf of Poets https://easyhiker.co.uk/lerici-and-the-gulf-of-poets/ https://easyhiker.co.uk/lerici-and-the-gulf-of-poets/#respond Sun, 24 May 2026 08:45:19 +0000 https://easyhiker.co.uk/?p=43460 In the afternoon of 8 July 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet and heir apparent to a baronetcy that came with a large fortune, rigged his sailing boat in the port of Livorno to return from a meeting with friends to his home further up the Italian coast in the bay of La Spezia. Ahead of...

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]]> https://easyhiker.co.uk/lerici-and-the-gulf-of-poets/feed/ 0 Coventry and Wolverhampton: Two Tales of West Midland Ruins https://easyhiker.co.uk/coventry-and-wolverhampton-two-tales-of-west-midland-ruins/ https://easyhiker.co.uk/coventry-and-wolverhampton-two-tales-of-west-midland-ruins/#respond Sun, 17 May 2026 07:58:55 +0000 https://easyhiker.co.uk/?p=43420 I have always held that every town, no matter how frumpy and dull it may appear, can give you one day of good entertainment. After that, the metropolitan wheat is divided from the Palookaville chaff, but for a single day, day trippers should not struggle too hard to find what they are looking for: a...

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]]> https://easyhiker.co.uk/coventry-and-wolverhampton-two-tales-of-west-midland-ruins/feed/ 0 A Monument To Industry https://easyhiker.co.uk/a-monument-to-industry-birmingham/ https://easyhiker.co.uk/a-monument-to-industry-birmingham/#respond Sun, 10 May 2026 08:37:46 +0000 https://easyhiker.co.uk/?p=43390 Some countries do city tourism well, others badly or not at all. At one end of the scale, you have France, Spain and Italy. Their great cities are firm fixtures on the global tourism itinerary, and most of these countries’ regional capitals have become popular destinations in their own right.  Toulouse and Strasbourg, Seville and...

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