
A Wintry Walk – Snowdon Snow
Having spent the day in the Peak District, we drove across to Wales. Lars was keen to bag a peak, so it had to be Snowdon. We had an easier…
Having spent the day in the Peak District, we drove across to Wales. Lars was keen to bag a peak, so it had to be Snowdon. We had an easier…
The last ten days Lars Bengtsson has been visiting. We made a whistlestop tour round the south of England and Wales. The first few days were particularly beautiful, if somewhat…
The Pingo Trail. Not to be confused with Pingu, the cartoon penguin. There are no penguins in Norfolk. There are lots of pingos though. ‘Pingos were originally low hillocks that…
I think you can only truly appreciate where you live when you have gone travelling and returned. Each time I come back home, I realise a little more, what a…
It is easy to do something if you want to. The problem is, it is often easier not to. We are all good at making excuses for not doing things.…
It’s a long time since I just headed out of the house with my bike and a map and cycled any which way the trails and hills and wind take…
I had no plans for the weekend, but the forecast was for sunny skies. That idyllic English summer day that occurs so rarely! So whatever I chose to do it…
During my ride through Africa, I also spent two weeks paddling down the upper reaches of the Niger River in Guinea in a wooden pirogue with fellow cyclist Lars Bengtsson.…
The Polar Museum at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge holds a unique collection of artefacts, journals, paintings, photographs, clothing equipment and maps illustrating polar exploration, history and science.…
Over the upcoming weekends I shall be indulging in my less active interests, namely books and film. Books – The Hay Festival Well known in the literary world is the…
Easter is more like a holiday than a weekend. The plan was to meet up with friends and family on the other side of the country. Normally I would drive…
The Peddars Way is one of the National Trail’s long distance paths. It is 46 miles long, running in an almost straight line from Knettishall Heath in Suffolk to Holme-next-the-sea…