Walking holidays and hiking vacations – ideas and inspiration for walking holidays around the world based on my own personal experience. From the Tour du Mt Blanc in Europe to the Milford Track in New Zealand you’ll find packing lists, training tips and day-by-day accounts of some of the world’s best hikes.
Our camping trip to the Gower Peninsula was a game of two halves, if you’ll pardon the sporting pun. Gower is in south Wales and holds the honour of being the first ever area in Britain to be given that charming title: “Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty”, which is why […]
Mallorca is a popular travel destination in Europe, beloved for its sunny climate and so many visitors fly in and out every year without exploring beyond the poolside and enjoying the many delights of La Isla de la Calma. Here are my top 10 things to do in Mallorca, Spain, to […]
After two years living and travelling in Australia I thought it was time to bite the bullet and write a top 10 things to do in Australia post. It is time for some reflection on our exploration of this vast continent. I have travelled in Australia by rail, by car […]
From the air the Australian ‘outback’ looks so spectacularly empty and somehow that gives the features that do appear an added significance. Patches of red earth look like open sores; gorges and the low, eroded mountains can be seem from hundreds of miles away. For example Mount Conner is three […]
There was an echidna scuffling in the undergrowth – not a metre from my right boot! I won’t share the photo I took – a blurry one showing an indistinct creature half covered with undergrowth – but nothing can detract from the excitement of being half a metre away from […]
Here along the banks of the river Stour, with the county of Essex on one side and Suffolk on the other, England’s favourite landscape painter John Constable spent half his lifetime finding inspiration for great art. Flatford Mill was owned by Constable’s uncle Abram and here, within only a […]
Reports of trekking in Bali attracted me to the forest-clad mountains of the Central Highlands and so I took the road from Lovina on the north coast that gradually winds up to the village of Munduk. The rice fields become steeper here, interspersed with lush scenes of coconut and banana plantations. […]
It’s a steep climb up Table Mountain via the Platterklip Gorge. Within 10 minutes I was thinking I’d been foolish to climb up and take the cable car down. One-and-a-half hours of sweaty stumbling but I looked up occasionally to see sweeping views across Cape Town and the Bay under […]
A troop of baboons whoop and holler at our approach then retreat up the cliffs, posting sentries and outriders. The alpha male is the last to withdraw after all the family are safe. As we pass they send out a screaming challenge. This is the Namib Naukluft desert of Namibia, considered […]