Advice and equipment to help you prepare for your trip

Choosing your walking poles, packing your backpack, preparing your panniers or assessing the difficulty of a route: sound guidance helps you set off with greater peace of mind. Find practical advice here from the Grand Angle team for hiking, trekking and cycling holidays.

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Prepare for the terrain and the season

Advice becomes most useful when you apply it to a specific route. Browse the hiking blog or the cycling blog, then check the most suitable time to travel with When and where to go in Europe?.

To help you picture the experience, our travel journals complement this guidance with first-hand accounts.