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Because late August into… well, halfway into October, really, was incredibly busy, I began to fantasise about taking a weekend away from it all. Glamping with a hot tub, maybe. A cottage in the countryside. Somewhere cosy where I could have long lazy mornings, do some writing, not think about work or Guiding. But glamping … More A Halloween weekend in Purbeck
While I’m catching up on old trips, it seemed a good time to talk a bit about my October 2012 trip to Iceland. I don’t tend to go to Iceland in autumn; summer is infinitely better for camping my way around and winter is infinitely better for magical winter wonderland scenery and autumn in Iceland … More Iceland’s Golden Circle in autumn colours
I should have more to say about Tromsø itself but as I don’t, not really, I’m going to jump straight from How I spent 2 days in Trondheim in 2011 to seeing the Midnight Sun. Tromsø is a very pleasant city; it’s got a relatively spectacularly huge bridge linking the city on the island to … More I saw the Midnight Sun in Tromsø
I went to Norway for the first time in 2011 and to make the most of it, I had a couple of days in Trondheim before flying up to Tromsø for a couple of days. That pre-dates this blog but for the sake of completion, for the sake of filling in gaps in my Norway … More How I spent two days in Trondheim in 2011
Has anyone else ever been woken up in a tent by a lionness roaring at quarter past three in the morning? On Dartmoor? This was my second Girlguiding adult-only residential in September. Two weeks ago I was at Try Inspire Qualify and now I’m pitching my tiny yellow tent in the rain at a zoo! … More We snoozed at the zoo!
This is a trip from 2013 that needs a bit more writing up. I’ve done a few excursions from it but I’ve never tackled the whole thing as a block and since four weekend adventures in five weeks isn’t filling up my blog schedule as well as I hoped it would, I’m going back in … More Exploring Iceland’s Highland Circle by bus
Second weekend in a row of uniformed adults having adventures in the woods! But this time, we’re not pretending to be Scouts and the neckerchiefs aren’t a festival costume; we’re the real thing – Girlguiding adult volunteers and the neckerchiefs were mostly Region ones. Try Inspire Qualify is an adults-only event run by Girlguiding South … More I made a knife at Try Inspire Qualify 2026
My Iceland film photo collection is getting pretty good! By which I mean that this is my fourth set of film photos of Iceland and it’s also possibly the best set so far. Winter 2024 was in black and white and not nearly as high-contrast as I dreamed. Summer 2025 was with my grandad’s massive … More Iceland on film (June 2026 edition)
35mm film photos are very hit and miss. The pictures from Málaga are pretty terrible; quite dark and all the shadows tinted green, the pictures from Helsinki are a bit overexposed (blame the snow) and 17 are missing altogether and most of the pictures from Switzerland in January are a bit dark. But the pictures … More Denmark on film
Once I’d decided I was going to Copenhagen (and had my trip to Stevn’s Klint in my itinerary), the first thing I wanted to do was go over the Øresund Bridge to Malmö. I like a train adventure, especially one that can go across national borders and you bet I wanted to see the really … More The best way to visit Malmö from Copenhagen isn’t by train