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...
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...
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...
Trekking and camping for almost a week with a full pack and in what will likely be cold and wet weather is definitely not everyone’s idea of a holiday! It is ours, though, and we came to Iceland to walk 🙂 We were excited to...
England has thousands of miles of footpaths and the 102 mile Cotswold Way, from Chipping Camden to Bath, is one of the country’s 16 National Trails.
Catherine and I spent a weekend in...
A few weeks after spending the Easter weekend walking the southern half of the Cotswold Way, Catherine and I were looking forward to an early May Bank holiday weekend exploring the...
After a wonderful week exploring Montenegro, we headed over to Croatia’s Dubrovnik for two days, an easy two-hour bus from Tivat. I had heard...
Catherine and I recently made our first visit to the Balkans, spending just over a week in Montenegro and two days in Dubrovnik’s beautiful old town.
Montenegro, or Crno...
It’s Catherine’s birthday at the end of February so for the past few years I’ve taken her somewhere sunny to celebrate after the long London winters. This year’s EasyJet special was Palermo so that’s we where headed and it was a wonderful weekend to be warm, enjoy delicious...