I’ve got another installment of my Year Abroad tales. I was looking at my Switzerland map and there’s a lot of empty space on it. Where else have I been? I didn’t cover as much of Switzerland as I thought when I was living there, I didn’t go into much depth and I don’t remember… More Year Abroad: an expedition to Appenzell and St Gallen
It’s Tuesday, it’s six o’clock, it’s time for a new video. It’s episode 5 of the Iceland summer 2023 series and today I’m driving across the Desert of Misdeeds to Egilsstaðir before spending my evening at Vök Baths. I’ve quite enjoyed the behind-the-scenes thing, so let’s have a look at what else is going on… More Video: The Desert of Misdeeds | Iceland vlog 🇮🇸
I’m honestly astonished I’ve not done this before. Following last month’s real itinerary, how not to do the Ring Road, I’m finally going to do something I thought I must have done by now, an actual full Ring Road itinerary. Ideally, you want the entire summer because there’s so much to do in Iceland that you simply… More The Ultimate Ten Day Iceland Ring Road itinerary
I was a tiny bit dubious about this book, simply because the author goes by the name Jules. If you were at school with me, you can probably hear the same allegedly “slimy but satisfying” voice that I hear, declaiming, “Hi, I’m Jules!”. I say this as a person who could go by Jules but… More Travel Library: Not Cool: Europe by Train in a Heatwave by Jules Brown
This is my favourite video of the series and I’m so excited that it’s finally out! Day four of my Iceland vlog series sees me on a tour bus at 7.40am to head out into the Desert of Misdeeds to Askja. It’s a shorter day than I expected, only eleven and a half hours, driving… More Video: Expedition to Askja & Viti | Iceland vlog 🇮🇸
Today we’re talking practicality again. V is for Visas! There are many countries that you can’t just turn up to, you need to get a visa. There are also many countries where you’ll need a visa but you get it on arrival. And of course, we’ve “taken back control” and we’ve now got blue passports… More The A-Z of Solo Female Travel: V is for Visas
When I went to Iceland in February, I went with the hope of finding a chance to watch a documentary I’d seen mentioned in the Reykjavik Grapevine: Swimming Pool Stories, a film about Icelandic pool culture. I couldn’t find it online. Was there maybe a cinema in Reykjavik where I could catch it? Might it… More Film review: Swimming Pool Stories
In this week’s video, it’s my birthday! I give you a quick tour of Systragil, drive the hour or so to Myvatn, put up my tent at a beautiful lakeside campsite and then head to Myvatn. Hverir, the hot springs area, is my first stop, then I go up to the viewpoint over the Krafla… More Video: Exploring the Krafla geothermal area | Iceland vlog 🇮🇸
Girlguiding SWE and LaSER always have a Dartmoor training and leisure walking weekend the weekend of the 20-somethingth of September. I usually go. I did my training in 2014 and I use the leisure weekend to build up my logbook. You used to email them and request a place and now there’s an event site… More A solo logbook walk on Dartmoor
I think this is finally the last “what I did in Iceland this summer” post. It’s actually the first thing I did – first after I’d driven three hours to Þingvellir, camped on a chilly cloudy night and dealt with tyres with low pressure. I’d detoured off the Ring Road because I liked the idea… More A morning at Guðlaug Baths