I bought How Iceland Changed the World by Egill Bjarnason months ago and I’ve been dipping in and out ever since without quite being able to bring myself to read it from start to finish. That I eventually achieved by literally scheduling a chapter a day in my calendar and now I’m certain it does… More Travel Library: How Iceland Changed the World by Egill Bjarnason
Third in my Iceland Itinerary series is a real one, the one I plan to use next month! I haven’t been to Iceland for nearly four years and I’m very excited, and a bit nervous (I’m going on a plane!). And so this itinerary is both a blog post and me making plans. This is a week-long… More A real Iceland itinerary
It’s summer! The boats are back! I went canoeing! Ok, it’s not summer. The weather sometimes remembers it’s trying to trick us into believing it’s spring but it’s not summer. But the boat hire has reopened for the summer season and to be honest, if it had been a full-on named storm, I’d probably have… More My first paddle of 2022
This is probably the last virtual event I’ll do with Girlguiding – or at least, the last major event. I have no doubt we’ll do another Zoom Brownie meeting at some point when half the unit gets the dread plague from school, but virtual events are noticeably dwindling. All the big in-person camps and festivals have… More Castaway: a virtual sleepover
For the last little while, I’ve been kind of jealous when I go hiking with other people because their bags have little pockets on the hip belts. They’re really useful and my bag doesn’t have them! I like my bag and I’m not looking to replace it but I do want belt pockets. So I’ve… More MYOG: hip belt pockets for my hiking day bag
It’s now Thursday on my 2014 county trip to Switzerland and today we’re off to Reichenbach Falls and we’re going to return to Interlaken on a boat across the Brienzersee. I’ve already covered Anita’s B&B, Monday in the Lauterbrunnen Valley, Tuesday at Our Chalet and Wednesday in Neuchâtel and Yverdon-les-Bains and now it’s Thursday and… More Switzerland 2014: Reichenbach Falls & a boat trip on Brienzersee
I planned to write a post in July about how I’m a kayaking instructor, guys! and that post is still coming, I (more or less) promise – but it won’t be this summer. You might have heard my kayaking story a few times. I’ve done a few half-day sit-on-tops tours on the open sea, I graduated… More My 2022 kayaking and wild swimming plans
In the first lockdown, I took to gardening. I’d never taken any interest in it but my dad was doing the shopping for three households in our local little M&S (Tesco was impossible for the first month or so due to the combination of epic queues and shortages caused by panic buying) and they were… More What I learned from my second year of gardening
It’s taken a while to figure out what the second installment of How To Solo Female Travel should be but watching my parents take over an hour to book flights to Copenhagen made me realise – it’s how to plan your trip. Where are you going? Maybe you already know where you want to go.… More How to Solo Female Travel 2: how to plan your trip
Every major city has a hop-on hop-off bus tour these days. I generally pay them very little attention. Or do I? Actually, in the last few years I’ve made increasing use of them and I’ve concluded that actually I’m a bit of a fan. They’re one of those things that we tend to disregard. Wherever… More I like the hop-on hop-off bus