Travel, outdoors & adventure blogger who loves Iceland, camping and swimming.
I suspect I’ve said this before but I really liked the location of my hotel in Tbilisi- a five minute walk to the nearest metro station at Avlabari but also a ten minute walk to the Old Town, which meant I could go to the sulphur bath in the evening and get home quickly and … More Europe Square & Narikala cable car
This is another video from my vault – my trip to Brownsea Island in 2021 to spend a weekend in a tree tent. Again, common to these old ones, it’s not the video I wanted to make. I vividly remember sitting down to talk to the camera, finding it difficult but doing it but the … More New video: a quick weekend on Paradise Island
I can’t remember what day it was – maybe after the Old Town tour? – but one of my planned trips was viewpoint photography. I thought it would be good to get to a viewpoint, to take photos of the view, maybe to learn about photography but on the other hand, I knew that I … More Tbilisi’s funicular and Mtatsminda Park at sunset
And we’re back in Georgia! Five posts down, half a dozen still to come. Today I’m taking you out of Tbilisi, on my big day out. Friday was the day of longer day trips – there was a trip to Kazbegi, wine tours to Kvareli and Signagi and my choice, Uplistsikhe, an ancient cave town. … More Uplistsikhe, the ancient cave town
Let’s be honest here. This video wasn’t the one I planned to publish today. I planned to do a Girlguiding: what it’s actually like to be a leader in the event that the first Georgia video wasn’t ready. But although I filmed the Girlguiding video twice, I don’t like either, and the Georgia video/s won’t … More New video: Princetown branch railway hike (Dartmoor June 2021)
The seventh season of Somebody Feed Phil dropped on Netflix on Friday so I’ve dropped the Georgia posts just for today to show you all the places Phil Rosenthal visited in and around Reykjavik and how to go there yourself. I’ve made a map so you can find all the places Phil ate in Iceland … More Somebody Feed Phil in Iceland
My second Traverse tour was a tour of Tbilisi’s Old Town. There were four Old Town tours going and it took a moment to make sure we were all on the right buses. There was a Cultural Exploration which was going to various museums, exhibits and galleries – not my thing. There was a Gastronomy … More A tour of Old Town Tbilisi
At last it’s time for the final episode in this video series, Is This the Best Geothermal Pool in Iceland! It’s been months! I recorded the first attempts back at the beginning of November and yet with one thing and another, I only filmed this last one a week ago. Anyway, we’re at Hvammsvík for this last … More New video: Hvammsvík – is this the best geothermal pool in Iceland?
This was my first trip with Traverse. I arrived Monday night and just about had time to figure out the metro before I had to use it for real to get to the pick-up spot at Rose Revolution Square on Tuesday morning for our trip to the Chronicle of Georgia. To be honest, I wasn’t … More The weird Chronicle of Georgia
I was most excited about the enamel workshop, out of all the tours we did in Georgia. A traditional craft, one I’d never even considered having a go at! I watched videos on how cloisonné enamel is made and honestly, I realised it was going to take longer than the three hours allotted. At the … More An enamel workshop and the ancient capital of Georgia
I Am A Polar Bear 