I’ve covered quite a lot of the basics of camping – how to buy a tent, pitch it, repair it and how to cook while you’re camping but I’ve never done a camping packing list. Well, here it is, my list of camping essentials, broken down into categories. “Camping essentials” will vary from person to… More Camping for Beginners: Camping essentials
I’m quite a recent convert to glamping. I’m a low-maintenance sort of bear, who’s usually going to default to her own two-man tent in a field with minimal facilities. But I have a major weakness: hot tubs. You may remember the first time I gave in to the allure of my own hot tub, when… More The Pleasant Pheasant: shepherd’s hut review | Glamping in North Dorset
I found Farmstead Glamping entirely by chance. I was out on a walk, the muddiest walk I’ve ever done, and the lane that led home (well, to the car) passed by the entrance of a small campsite and from the hedge, I spied a shepherd’s hut. I got home and did my research and discovered… More A mini-holiday in North Dorset at Farmstead Glamping | Glamping in North Dorset
No matter how far the twenty-first century marches on, no matter what it throws at us, camping on an uninhabited island will always feel like something out of a 1920s children’s adventure story. My weekend camping on Brownsea Island was full-on Swallows and Amazons, minus the cooking fire (Brownsea is too much of a fire… More A peaceful weekend on Brownsea Island | Tree Camping June 2021
We have actual travel content today! I went on my first holiday of 2021! It was a two night camping trip, except it was slightly better than camping because I was in a tree tent! Brownsea adventure camping has finally, after 100+ years, opened to the general public. I’ve camped with my Guides before and… More Brownsea adventure camping review | Tree Camping June 2021
So, has anyone else watched the new Netflix Katla series? It’s a dark, eerie atmospheric thriller set in the small town of Vík, or to give it its full name Vík í Mýrdal, on the south coast, in the shadow of a year-long eruption of the volcano Katla. Vík and Katla are both real. Vík is… More Netflix’s Katla review and local guide
Ah, packing. I hate it. But I’m going glamping! In fact, by the time this is published I’ll have been glamping and be home again but in real time, I haven’t gone yet and so I have to pack and so I give you my (summer) glamping packing list. Last time I glamped it was December and… More My glamping packing list | Glamping in North Dorset
My first post-lockdown real thing was that I met up with my friend Catherine for a countryside walk a couple of weeks ago. Catherine is a nature connection guide and feminine rewilding coach, a retreat host, a wanderer and an artist and all that makes her a very good companion for a country walk. She’d… More A Single Map: A walk and a nature lesson
If you haven’t noticed, there’s a volcano in Iceland still going strong. It’s a great tourist volcano – it’s fairly small and it’s pretty but mostly not dangerous. It’s producing a bit of gas and every now and then it has to be closed because of the volume of gas builds up but the lava… More Inside the Volcano
Last year I went to Wareham and hired a canoe. I knew from experience the year before that although rowing boats are so much more romantic, they’re a lot heavier and a lot more difficult to manoeuvre. So having discovered that canoes are easier, I went off to Wareham on the first niceish day of… More How to do an (accidental) handbrake turn in a canoe