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...
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...
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...
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...
We enjoyed a sunny long Easter weekend walking almost 80km of the beautiful Cotswold Way from Stroud to Bath.
I love this shot, and our energy, at the end of our six-day trek up Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa! It was an unforgettable experience and you can read my blog...
It was an unforgettable trek up Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa! You can read my blog here.