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Maybe you have thought of barefoot walking?

Article Category: Travel

Author Name: Sarah Boys

It's fascinating when you're researching a vacation on-line where you may end up journeying to and what information finds you in your quest. I have just returned from a walking holiday in Las Alpujarras, near the Sierra Nevada National Park in southern Spain. Judging on the deficit of tourists in the region, I would say that the large attractions of Granada, Seville and Ronda have helped to help keep this part of Andalucía a well-kept secret. If you may have sated your appetite for historic buildings and wish to have an insight into village culture, i then would suggest you head east from Granada and wind slowly up into the mountains of Las Alpujarras to find the attractive valleys, mountainsides and white villages that nestle below the Sierra Nevada. In amongst them you will find the pretty village of Bérchules home of Hotel Los Bérchules and the most hospitable hotel owners you are ever likely to meet.

This is just what I did and discovered, within the hotel's menu of walks, an exceptionally picturesque and tranquil countryside laced which has a network of paths waiting to be walked. The more prominent trails include the E4 long distance European walk that starts in Tarifa, Spain, and winds through France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and leads to Greece (including Crete and Cyprus). Its length is over 10,000 km. So that's the place where I became somewhat distracted. I was trying to find walking holidays in Las Alpujarras; that led to looking at various hotels in the area and then I happened upon someone's blog. A chap, at the age of 55 and having worked constantly for Thirty years, decided the time had come for something different. He called it his mid-life crisis and he planned for twelve months his 180 day walk from Tarifa to Budapest. He is currently walking the Spanish section of the walk (May 2011).

Now, I've done some long distance cycling and have for several years travelled light. With the ever-increasing weight restrictions for the budget airlines the effective use of hand luggage is now a cost saving that I rarely avoid but is now harder to accomplish since the luggage needs to be lighter and lighter. As a walker, most likely the heaviest thing you will need to cope with along with your hand luggage will probably be your boots and I don't like wearing heavy boots when arriving in a hot country. So I'm intrigued to understand what this long-distance-walking chap would be wearing during his trekking trip through Las Alpujarras. During his research he came across a quotation from Ray Jardine who, within his book The Pacific Crest Trail Hiker's Handbook, states that "each additional 1.5 ounces removed from a boot would add about a mile towards day's hiking progress". On that basis going barefoot could mean arriving at Budapest about 2 weeks sooner than anticipated.

Perfect! I'm planning to ditch those hot heavy boots. Apparently Chris Townsend, in his Backpacker's Handbook, rejects the argument that boots provide additional ankle support or that stiff soles provide some kind of protection against uneven surfaces. So for cost conscious readers, my suggestion will be to book a walking holiday in Las Alpujarras, at Hotel Los Bérchules, take only hand luggage and research the up and coming barefoot walking technique which is better for the gait, posture, and luggage allowance.

Keywords: walking holidays in andalucia, walking in andalucia, self guided walking holidays, walking holidays europe, berchules, las alpujarras

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