Monday, May 30th, 2011
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I always secretly wanted to be Julie Andrews. Leading children merrily across Alpine pastures, with songs to fix every dilemma, and Christopher Plummer hanging on my every note. So, walking in the Alps in late May, (albeit French, not Austrian), with my husband and two sons, the snow-capped peaks glistening in the distance, and Edelweiss- [...]
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Tags: ecotourism France, green holidays France, green travel France, itinerance, mercantour, tourisme durable France, walking holidays France, walking holidays in the Alps, walking with a donkey
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
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One of the most fantastic ways to become a responsible traveller is to go off the beaten track. For example, you can benefit so many people economically by checking out Dublin’s International Theatre Festival instead of Edinburgh’s (and you are more likely to get a ticket too!). Go hiking in France’s Mercantour National Park instead [...]
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Tags: DK Eyewitness Travel, mercantour, Road less travelled
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
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I have always had a bit of an inferiority complex when it comes to the French. I lived there for almost three years as a student, and looked on in awe at the women with their perfect skin, toned muscles, and their ‘born to wear tight jeans’ bottoms, I tried very hard to keep up [...]
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Tags: donkey trekking, itinerance, mercantour
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