Down in the depths of the Isle of Purbeck, you’ll find a perfect chocolate box village called Worth Matravers. It’s all built from local grey limestone, there’s a duckpond in the middle and one of these tiny local pubs perched on the hilltop, with incredible sea views, the sort of pub where you can get … More Walking to Dancing Ledge from Worth Matravers

I don’t really celebrate Halloween. My parents never let me trick or treat as a kid and we never carved pumpkins either so those are both things I just don’t do. Well, by the time I was old enough to not need their permission to trick or treat, I was too old for it – … More Halloween at Upton Country Park

You may – or more likely, may not – remember back in 2019 I started a series called Before It Burns Down, which is a very tasteless title for my plan to visit all the cathedrals, after having realised when Notre-Dame caught fire that these medieval behemoths might not actually sit and wait for me … More The weirdness and wonder of Wells Cathedral

This week, I’ve seen this Guardian article – Three-quarters of UK adults can’t read a map – going around my social media several times. It’s one of these classic “what’s happened to the world??” articles designed to get older readers tutting. Now. This is a write-up of the results of a poll by Ordnance Survey, … More Outdoors 101: A few map-reading basics

Yes, I was a Lumenator in Green Space Dark Skies’ Maiden Castle short film which was released late last week! It’s the first time – and probably the last time – I’ve ever added a video to a playlist called Videos I Appear In That I Didn’t Make Myself and I don’t even actually appear … More I played a Lumenator in a Green Space Dark Skies film!

Let’s talk about how I built up to solo female travel. My first real trip was five days in Helsinki in November 2008 but I’d had a lot of various practice over the years which meant it wasn’t quite such a shock to the system – or to my parents – when I first went … More How I built up to solo female travel

It feels like a long time since I’ve done some Wessex Girl/local travel stuff so today we’re heading to Blandford Forum, a market town in North Dorset which I really should have written about years ago. Its interestingly Roman name just means it has a market. It’s not a Roman town, although I think it’s … More A day in Blandford Forum

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