A Stroll around Montparnasse Cemetery
Montparnasse Cemetery, opened on 25 July 1824, is one of the three principal cemeteries of central Paris (the other two being Pere-Lachaise and Montmartre). It was originally one necropolis, but today […]
Take a Walk in Regents Park
In recognition of Take a Walk in the Park Day, celebrated today, 30 March 2015, I will take you on a wander around Regents Park in London. Regent Park cover […]
Walking the Boardwalk at Wicken Fen
Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire is one of the oldest nature reserves in Britain. It became the first nature reserve to be owned by the National Trust when it was bought by […]
Vienna’s Arty Canal
I wonder how many cites in the world have a canal? Not a statistic easily findable through Google and Wikipedia, but certainly all of the cities I have been […]
Milan’s Grand Canal
If you think canals, you probably think first of Venice – Venice, Italy. Then, there’s a whole panoply of cities that dub themselves the “Venice of the North”, including Amsterdam, Bruges, Birmingham, Manchester, Saint Petersburg and Stockholm. […]
Promenading the Banks of Canal Saint-Martin
I love a waterside walk and Paris obliges with the Seine, of course. But it has another waterway that makes for a pleasant stroll, one that isn’t so well known […]
A Short Plečnik Walk
It’s high time I took you for a walk along the Ljubljanica. Just a short walk, but we’ll take in several of Ljubljana’s key sights, and a couple of Jože […]
The Banks of the Clyde
Grab your warm clothes and comfy shoes and come walk with me. There’s a map of the route at the end of the post; the numbers in brackets in the text coincide with […]
Travel with Intent 