France on Foot

One of my favorite books about walking in France is France on Foot: Village to Village, Hotel to Hotel: How to Walk the French Trail System on Your Own. Bruce LeFavour, a professional chef with a penchant for get-away hiking with fine food and wine at the end of each day’s trail, describes his years [...]

Thirty Years… 30,000 Miles…

Here’s a little pedestrian motivation from Bill and Neddy Orme of Sydney, Australia.  They were hard-charging forty-something professionals before they made their first walk.  John Huxley recounts how it changed their lives in this article from the Sydney Morning Herald.  One of their three key inspirations was Hilaire Belloc’s classic tale of his pilgrimage walk [...]