The South African 7s Rugby Team are more commonly known as the BlitzBokke. The team’s nickname is derived from “blitz”, an Afrikaans word meaning lightning, and of course Bokke – the nickname of our rugby team....
For those of us South Africans who live in the UK, November is a wonderfully special month of live rugby as we follow our Springboks around...
En route through the Scottish Highlands in a campervan – here’s my blog on an amazing road-trip along the North Coast 500 in a campervan with a bump!
In early September, Catherine, the bump and I headed up to Scotland for a final holiday before the little one arrived. The weather in Scotland is seldom camping friendly, nor is a large 8-month bump really, so we decided to hire a campervan! It’s also a very Covid...
Markie and I enjoyed a wonderful, and dry, long weekend walking along the Two Moors Way across Dartmoor National Park – here’s the blog I wrote on our weekend.
The 102 mile Two Moors Way runs from Ivybridge on the southern boundary of the Dartmoor National Park to Lynmouth on the North Devon coast in the Exmoor National Park. Over the late-August bank holiday weekend (last year now in 2020), Markie and I we were planning to walk almost...
This was taken whilst exploring the Prespa Lakes – where Greece, Albania and North Macedonia meet. I didn’t write about these few days but you can read about our spectacular 5 days of trekking...
After a spectacular five days trekking through the Pindus Mountains, Dyl and I were excited to climb Greece’s most iconic peak – Mount Olympus. Rising almost straight from the Aegean...
The original plan had been to visit Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo. When reading about hiking in Albania, I discovered that just across the border in northern Greece are the Pindus Mountains and thus when travel to Albania wasn’t possible, we decided to head to Greece. Like many others...
Perhaps the image more closely associated with Japan than any other is that of the perfectly symmetrical snow-capped...