I love to visit Unesco World Heritage Sites and find that it provides an interesting way to form a travel bucket list. Here you will find my photos and words on the many Unesco World Heritage sites I have visited around the world.
2015 was my second year on Instagram and looking back over the images is a very satisfying review of a fantastic year of travel, with lifelong bucket list items ticked off and loads of family and personal fun along the way. Here are my most popular Instagram travel posts from […]
I have to be honest with you straight away and say that Assisi is very touristy. It is often crowded with coach tours that include the sort of loud vacationers and tacky souvenir shops that I usually avoid like the plague. However, I did find Assisi beautiful and I have […]
I know a lot of people who have walked on the Camino di Compostela di Santiago, which is the most famous pilgrimage route in Europe but it has never really appealed to me. But listening to Sandy Brown talking about his experience hiking the Way of St Francis (Via di […]
I have always wanted to see Hadrian’s Wall, in fact I harbour an ambition of walking the entire length of it one day. I loved reading Rosemary Sutcliffe’s novels when I was a child – especially Eagle of the Ninth – and the thought of those Roman legions stationed at […]
The ranger’s warnings from the night before proved prescient and at 6am she was knocking on the bunkroom doors telling us to pack up and get moving. Day Four of the Milford Track takes you from Dumpling Hut to Sandfly Point. At 18 kilometres it is the longest day by distance but […]
Welcome back to my day-by-day account of hiking the Milford Track in New Zealand‘s amazing Fiordland National Park. Day Three of the Milford Track takes you from Mintaro Hut to Dumpling Hut, covering 14 kilometres and taking between six and seven hours. In the morning a few Kea parrots turned […]
Continuing my day-by-day account of tramping the Milford Track in New Zealand’s Fiordland National Park… Day two covers 16.5 kilometres from Clinton Hut to Mintaro Hut and takes about six hours. In the morning it was a misty start, with a slight drizzle hanging around since the early hours. We […]
As promised, here begins my day-by-day account of tramping (the New Zealand world for hiking) the world’s finest hike: the Milford Track in New Zealand’s Fiordland National Park. Day one involves only five kilometres of walking between Glade Wharf and Clinton Hut, which takes approximately one hour. Day One starts with the 1pm […]
I can now agree wholeheartedly with those who rate the Milford Track as the finest hike in the world. It is beautiful. So beautiful. It is also a nicely balanced walk, with a slow build up to the big day crossing the pass and then a gentle finish. Fiordland National […]