I am off to look at a boat in spain next week, and the memsahib

[landaftaf]

now tells me she wants to go on a walking holiday in early july .........






with me ...........










anyone got any ideas on a really easy / interesting walking holiday in the middle of france, or tuscany - I thought of following one of the french canals on foot in preparation for transiting one with the boat - but thats been binned

 

[benjenbav]

Do a section of the Pilgrim's Way to Santiago de Compostella, maybe?

 

[Oliveoyl]

Re: I am off to look at a boat in spain next week, and the memsahib

There are some excellent walking hols in Mallorca, semi organised - your rucksack arrives by bus, stay the night in monasteries - not France /Tuscany, but a chance to reccy marinas / anchorages

 

[landaftaf]

mmm - looked at that on the web this afternoon, lots of hills and cart tracks and things ...... and millions of ppl a year do it - Ugh

 

[landaftaf]

Re: I am off to look at a boat in spain next week, and the memsahib

mmm - the word monastry puts me off, though had a brill time in mont st michelle a few decades ago. more of a pissup than a pilgrimage /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Fascadale]

Re: I am off to look at a boat in spain next week, and the memsahib

We did a ten day jaunt in the French Jura a couple of years back. Walk a day, hang out a day. The French Jura is a fairly empty place, (no other Brits, a few Swiss and some French) many cows, loads of trees, reasonable gradients, good food and passable wine. Stayed in some nice villages, but very quiet, next to nothing going on. What I think would be described as a relaxing holiday. Our luggage was shifted from hotel to hotel by a charming man in a van.

I think we did it through Headwater Holidays. I thought it a bit overpriced. You could do it more cheaply: get hold of an IGN map showimg their excellent footpath network, book the hotels on the net, and I'm sure le patron or the local taxi would shift your bags. I thought I could do it for half the package price

Another company that does this sort of thing is Sherpa. I've used them for shifting the bags in the UK. They were OK.

I hope this helps, but remember, time spent walking is time spent not boating.

No connection, other than as a former client, to both Sherpa and Headwater

All the best

 

[landaftaf]

Re: I am off to look at a boat in spain next week, and the memsahib

tnx - I will do some homework on the region

 

[Shearwater]

Re: I am off to look at a boat in spain next week, and the memsahib

Before you buy a boat here, make sure you can afford the marina fees and have assurance of an available berth. Fees are rocketing, space sparse, 3 years ago I could buy (lease in reality) a berth for a 23 ft boat at about €15000 for 12 years. It is now €35,000. Entry fee to the yacht club was €1200 it is now €6400 (that's a one off fee) + €500/year. Be aware!

 

[Twister_Ken]

Re: I am off to look at a boat in spain next week, and the memsahib

The French have very good long distance footpaths called GR (Grandes Randonées) which are trailmarked with a white & red flash, There's a network of them (60,000 km) covering the entire country, so you can choose whatever sort of landscape suits you, from flat and easy to crinkly and hard. They break up into day (or shorter) walks if you don't want to do an entire end-to-end trail, and they are organised so there is a town, village or refuge for accommodation at achievable intervals My walking books are in the French shack, so can't help with anything specific, but a websearch will turn up lots of stuff, I suspect.

 

[BlueChip]

plenty of nice mountains to walk in Spain