Walking

Cotswold Way Video

19 March 2012

Walking the Cotswold Way from Macs Adventure on Vimeo. A walking holiday on the Cotswold Way takes you through some of the most quintisential English scenery. Macs Adventure are specialists in this area and you can see more information at http://www.macsadventure.com/cotswold-way/overview.php

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New Walking Holiday in Tenerife

13 July 2011
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Macs Adventure are proud to announce the launch of a fabulous new walking holiday in Tenerife. Tenerife, located in the Canary Islands, is the perfect year round walking destination. Average maximums range from mid teens in the winter to mid twenties in the summer. For more details view climate guide. This makes Tenerife an especially good [...]

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4 Alternative Walks to the West Highland Way

10 February 2011
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For obvious reasons the West Highland Way is one of, if not the most popular long distance walk in the UK.  The transition from the suburbs of Glasgow out into the increasingly dramatic Highland scenery is something which draws people back to the walk year after year. With the absence of the dreaded midge and [...]

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What to Pack for the West Highland Way?

13 January 2011
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Sitting in front of your bags thinking what to pack for a trip on the West Highland Way can be a pretty daunting experience.  There are so many ‘what ifs’ that you might end up throwing in everything just to make sure that you are covered in any situation.  However if you are carrying your [...]

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The West Highland Way

13 January 2011
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The West Highland Way was established as Scotland’s first long distance path in 1980 and since then its reputation has flourished and become internationally recognised as one of the world’s great walks.  It was the first trip that Macs Adventure sold when we first started out and is the backbone of our business, with our [...]

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Skipping a Section on the West Highland Way

13 January 2011
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At 96 Miles, the West Highland Way can be as challenging as you want to make it, however not all of us are endurance runners that want to do it in one day, or heads down hikers who want to tear through the walk at blistering speed.  There are thousands of people every year who [...]

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Macs Adventure Accommodation of the Year 2010

7 December 2010
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Now that our UK walking season has come to an end, we have got a little time to sit back and reflect on the highs and lows of another successful year at Macs Adventure.  Here in the office we all work really hard, trying our best to make sure that everyone’s holiday is as flawless [...]

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Italian Adventure – Part 2 – Walking in the Amalfi Coast

30 November 2010
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The second part of my Italian adventure beckoned. I finally arrived on the Amalfi Coast, after a train from Naples to Sorrento and then the local bus along the breathtakingly beautiful and just a tiny bit scary coastal roads to Amalfi. This was my first time visiting the Amalfi Coast and although I thought I had a [...]

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The Ridgeway

10 November 2010
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The Ridgeway National Trail in Southern England is one of 15 National Trails in England and Wales and the latest addition to Macs Adventure’s range of self guided walking holidays in England. The Ridgeway runs for 87 miles through rural England to the West of the River Thames. Much of the trail follows an ancient [...]

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Walking & Cycling in Catalonia

20 October 2010
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Like so many of us I thought I knew Spain.  Of course I recognised that there was more to the country than the various “Costas” that hold such an enduring appeal for sun-lovers, but I never imagined the culture and diversity of landscape that I was about to encounter.  I was off to Catalonia – [...]

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The Isle of Wight Coastal Path Walk

20 October 2010
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The Isle of Wight Coastal Path is the latest addition to our programme of self guided walking holidays in England. The Isle of Wight, which lies a short distance off the South Coast of England has more than 500 miles of carefully maintained footpaths and rights of way. This combined with 60 miles of dramatic unspoilt coastline, [...]

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