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From 25 to 27 September 2024, the Council of Europe’s Annual Consultative Forum on Cultural Routes was held in Visegrád, Hungary.

In May this year the Stevenson Way organised a five-day guided walk on the island of Mull for two people Among the many sights on the Ross of Mull that we walked to were: Lochbuie with its Eco tea room, shore path with caves that people used to live in, an old sheep farm and […]

Stevenson’s ‘Travels in the Cevennes with a donkey’ has recently been published in paperback (Livres de Poche) with a new translation by Jean-Pierre Naugrette whose passionate introduction to the new translation entices the reader to rediscover this work. Well known connaisseur of Robert Louis Stevenson, Jean-Pierre Naugrette has translated several of Stevenson’s works: The Master […]

The theme of the 2024 international academic conference was “Stevenson intertextual”. This subject was addressed in a number of different ways. Martin White, President of the European network In the Footsteps of R.L. Stevenson, presented “Les écrivains voyageurs décodés”. These are three travel writers who all experienced Edinburgh in the 1870s, but in very different […]

This year the Long John Silver Trust have introduced the Pirates and Prejudice route. The route  is based on the Trust’s Treasure Island Trail and prioritises Bristol’s literary and maritime connections in line with the Trust’s raison d’être. The route also focuses upon the Trust’s membership of the European Cultural Route “In the Footsteps of […]

The 11th Cultural Routes Training Academy was held in Brindisi, Italy, from 4 to 7 June 2024, on the theme of “European cooperation and sustainable development”. The meeting brought together representatives of the 47 European cultural routes, including Martin White, President of the European network In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson. In a marvelous […]

The Stevenson’s Days this year will be held on 8th and 9th june 2024 at Longueil Annel and Chiry Ourscamps. Plenty of activities are planned including: a ‘Pirate concert’ starring the Orchestre d’Harmonie de Thourotte, Discover Stevenson’s works and the local heritage with cruises on the canal and Oise, workshops to discover your creativity with […]