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A day pack contains a handful of items that matter and several that are carried out and back unopened every time.

France's best day walking is spread across regions most visitors never associate with hiking at all.

Italy marks its paths with painted numbers rather than named routes, and the maps that match are not the ones in bookshops abroad.

The Camino is not one path but a network, and the route you pick determines whether you walk alone or in a crowd.

The Dolomites combine the best hut food in the Alps with a via ferrata network built during a mountain war.

Portugal's walking hazards are heat and fire rather than altitude, and the season is the opposite of northern Europe's.

Europe's national trail networks are the reason long-distance walking there needs so little planning.