easy hiker https://easyhiker.co.uk/ adventures for beginners Sun, 08 Nov 2026 08:14:29 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://easyhiker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/cropped-easy-hiker-5-32x32.jpg easy hiker https://easyhiker.co.uk/ 32 32 Where to Look for the Beauty of Brest https://easyhiker.co.uk/where-to-look-for-the-beauty-of-brest/ https://easyhiker.co.uk/where-to-look-for-the-beauty-of-brest/#respond Sun, 08 Nov 2026 08:14:27 +0000 https://easyhiker.co.uk/?p=43994 In 1838, eight statues were erected around the Place de la Concorde (in the centre of Paris) that were dedicated to eight major cities of France: Bordeaux, Brest, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Rouen, and Strasbourg.  Why these eight cities – and not Toulouse, for example, which was bigger than Strasbourg at the time, while Brest...

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]]> https://easyhiker.co.uk/verona-riverwalk-brush-up-your-shakespeare/feed/ 0 Quimper: Not Quite the End of the World https://easyhiker.co.uk/quimper-not-quite-the-end-of-the-world/ https://easyhiker.co.uk/quimper-not-quite-the-end-of-the-world/#respond Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:16:03 +0000 https://easyhiker.co.uk/?p=43932 When new administrative districts were created by the French revolutionary government in 1790, the names for these départements were nearly always based on rivers and mountains. Traditional names counted for nothing, since the idea was to avoid any references to religion or the culture of the ancien regime. Not even the département of Paris was...

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]]> https://easyhiker.co.uk/quimper-not-quite-the-end-of-the-world/feed/ 0 Rennes: Brittany But Not as You Know it https://easyhiker.co.uk/rennes-brittany-but-not-as-you-know-it/ https://easyhiker.co.uk/rennes-brittany-but-not-as-you-know-it/#respond Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:26:46 +0000 https://easyhiker.co.uk/?p=43894 Close your eyes and think of – no, not of England (for a change) but of Brittany: what do you see?  Let me guess: I suspect that your mental image may very well feature rugged cliffs and rocky coastlines plus, perhaps, a couple of weather-beaten seamen in a small fishing boat, brazing the winds and...

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