A few months ago now we headed off to Cyprus for a 10-day holiday. We had read the weather at the end of February should be good and found cheap mid-morning flights to Paphos on the west coast – great times with a 2 and a half year old toddler.
The Principality of Andorra, Europe’s sixth-smallest country, lies in the Eastern Pyrenees and is bordered by Spain and France.
Given Andorra doesn’t have its own airport, I flew into Barcelona and was picked up by...
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...
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...
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...
One of my earliest childhood memories is being woken by my dad at 4.30am on a Saturday morning to watch the Springboks take on the All Blacks in New Zealand. For 25 years I dreamt of watching the Springboks live in New Zealand and in 2011 that dream became a reality as
Outside of Mt Fuji, I didn’t associate Japan with hiking. Once we started planning our inaugural BURTSandBORTZ adventure to
After a spectacular day walking Iceland’s Fimmvörðuháls Trail from Skógar to Þórsmörk, we were excited to continue on the 55km Laugavegur Trail to Landmannalaugar. Situated in the south of...