Top five overseas hiking holidays this summer - the Holy Grails of European trails

After Covid kept us all cooped up, now is the perfect time to embark on wonderful walking getaway

Trolltunga in Odda, Norway. Photo: Scott Sporleder

Vic O'Sullivan

Although Ireland offers spectacular hikes, from the Burren in Co Clare to Slieve League in Donegal, after two years in lockdown it’s time to stretch the legs and discover new horizons.

From Portugal in the south to Norway in the north, our European neighbours offer some spectacular opportunities to put all that fitness and all those promises we stored up over the last couple of years to the test.