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The hottest day hiking the Ligurian seacoast in Italy | Day 1 from Sestri Levante to Moneglia
We started the Cinque Terre hike when we decided to interrupt our Via Francigena and get closer to the coast. We had very hot days lately so we felt like getting closer to the coast may help a bit and also we wanted to have a variety of hiking experience in Italy discovering different parts of it. So we booked a Bla Bla Car to pick us up from the lake Viverone where we were staying for couple of days to Genova from where we wanted to take a train further along the coast to the town Sestri Levante. We were lucky because someone was going in the direction we…
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Can’t believe how this Tour de Mont Blanc ends | Day 11 of TMB from Champex Lac to Fenetre de Arpette
We got up very early that day as we knew that the day is going to be hot and we had to conquer 2600m mountain. So we planned to do that in the first half of the day till 11 am and then start to get down. The night was extremely warm again and we didn’t have to wear any warm clothes. It was very quiet and nobody has disturbed us fortunately. There was no wind or any other sounds at all so we slept very well. We started our uphill at 7 am (which was our personal record) from the village Arpette, walked along the rapid river for some…
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Tour du Mont Blanc Final Thoughts, Tips and Advice | Difficulties, gear, wild camping, best season to hike
In this post we want to share with you our final thoughts and tips about the Tour de Mont Blanc trail. For us it was very beautiful but challenging trail that required quite a bit of preparation. It is an amazing trail that allowed us to discover lots of scenic places. We are going to share what gear is better to take with you, what distance to make a day, the weather patterns you can meet, how to wild camp on this trail and the best season to hike it. Hope that you´ll find some useful information here. The TMB is a challenging trail Tour de Mont Blanc is a…
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Switzerland is too expensive!? Is it for real? | Day 10 of TMB from La Fouly to Champex-Lac
It was one of the warmest nights that we had, we didn’t even put on our warm hats which is a big deal because we’ve been doing it during the whole trip. We got up very early to be able to do the biggest part of the trail as early as possible. So we wrapped everything up and got on a trail. We knew that it’s going to be a hot day by how blue the sky was and the strong sunlight right from the morning. Also seeing the weather forecast for a week it was all clear and sunny days. We wanted to get to the village Champex La…
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Full Cinque Terre Blue Trail in 1 day + Tips and Final Thoughts | Day 3 – Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia…
So that big day came when we finally were going to hike the official Cinque Terre trail along the coast from Monterosso to Riomaggiore. The trail was consisting of several parts few kilometers each going from one small coastal village to the other and is believed to be one of the most beautiful and unusual coastal walks to take. We tried to wake up as early as possible and started the day with taking the train from Levanto to Monterosso. As we knew that it would take us the whole day to hike there and the trail was quite challenging, we had to go over the mountain. We wanted to…
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Hiking remote paths of the Italian seacoast | Cinque Terre Day 2 – Framura, Bonassola and Levanto
That day we woke up really early at 5am. As we did promised to ourselves to try the new schedule in order to escape the extreme heat hours. We didn’t even had any breakfast – just ate some nuts and one peach. It isn’t what we like to do to start the day on an empty stomach but this was the sacrifice we had to do. The night was very quiet, we just heard some wild boar noises from a far but they didn’t came close to us. The plain wood helped a lot to even out the surface and we slept really well. So when we wrapped everything up…
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Wild camping struggle in Italy?! Is it even possible? | Day 7 of TMB to Courmayer, Rifugio G. Bertone
The morning of that day was very cloudy and chilly with lots of humidity and wetness in the air. It was one of the first cloudy mornings on the trail. We woke up quite early at 6 am and were just chilling out in the tent for a while. We were so grateful for the privileged location that we camped in yesterday evening. The views from the site were incredible with the massive rocks and waterfalls coming down from them right in front of us. It was so beautiful that Angelina even got desire to draw a quick sketch of this view just for the souvenir sake. We got out…
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Crossing from France to Italy in the snow of the Alps | Day 6 of TMB from Les Mottets, France to Plan de Veny, Italy
The day started at 6am in the morning when our alarm took off and we wanted to get up early to be able to conquer the mountain early in the day. The night was calm and only the cow bells were heard. We saw that there was another tent close to ours probably set up later in the evening. Because really that was the only flat spots in the area on the ruins of some old buildings. The day promised to be warm and sunny with no clouds on the horizon. But when we checked the weather forecast earlier it was said that it can be a thunderstorm later in…
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Wild camping is allowed on Tour de Mont Blanc in France? | Day 5 of TMB Chalets de Raja- Les Mottets
We waked up to a sunny windy morning in our wild camping spot and we don’t remember if we slept well or not cause we were so tired but we did remember that we were sliding down the sleeping pads all night long. The slope was too steep apparently and we couldn’t do nothing about it. We felt so sore and tired from yesterday’s adventure that we hardly could get out of our tent. We knew that we are not going to conquer another mountain today but we still needed to progress forward. So we had our breakfast and started to go downhill. We planned to be searching the wild…
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We are about to quit the Tour de Mont Blanc (on the most snowy uphill) | Day 4.2 of TMB Refuge La Balme – Refuge de la Croix du Bonhomme
In today’s episode we hiked from Refuge La Balme to Refuge de la Croix du Bonhomme. The path was becoming steeper and steeper from that moment on and soon we met quite a big snow areas under our feet. In some places it was quite deep and it was dangerous to step at it. Then the glorious view of the snowy mountain has opened to us and we realized that this is how this trail goes next. We hesitated for some time whether we should attempt to climb it or not and finally we decided to try it. In the end we didn’t lose anything and what was more important…
