I’m mostly past this small crisis in “how can a travel blog exist when I can’t travel?!” and normal function is resuming. Actually, behind the scenes it’s already resumed. I found a pad of graph paper I’ve never used and it is rapidly being covered in plans and ideas and I’m scheduling stuff again. But … More Hi, I’m Juliet: Meet the blogger behind the bear
I started a Weird Souvenirs series a long time ago and it didn’t get beyond two installments. Well, here’s the third and it’s an expansion of the first, which was about a piece of lava I brought back from Holuhraun. This is my rock collection. It’s actually four rock collections. The first three are all … More Weird souvenirs: meet my rock collection
There’s no travel on the horizon for the foreseeable future. It’s already been six months since I’ve been anywhere and I’m starting to worry now about how to maintain a travel & adventure blog while staying at home. I’ve got plenty of old stories never told (or never read) but is it enough to weather … More Adventures at Home: my square mile
A very rare topical blog today! Did you see the goings-on at Durdle Door over the weekend? If you didn’t, allow me to summarise. Durdle Door is a natural rock formation with an arch cut out of it by water action. It’s most beloved of GCSE geography textbooks. You either park at the caravan park … More What’s it like to live near a tourist hotspot?
I don’t normally do favourites posts because I’m not a lifestyle YouTuber but these are weird and unprecedented times and I thought, since no one’s travelling, it might not be a bad idea to share some of the things I’ve been enjoying lately. (No affiliate links here: Amazon kicked me off their programme for failing … More Stay At Home Storytelling: Lockdown favourites
Since I’m spending the vast majority of the time these days sitting at my desk, and since there’s no travel on the horizon for me at all – or any of us – I thought I’d give you a tour of my workspace. I have two jobs, both desk-based, at both of which I’m able … More Stay At Home Storytelling: Desk tour
This is supposed to be the first of four to six posts about my trip to Iceland in March but if you’re reading this, it means I didn’t go. At time of writing, it’s Sunday 15th March, the end of the week in which things got serious and I’m leaning towards “better all round not … More What can a travel blogger do when she can’t travel?
This is one of the hazards of planning and scheduling your blog so far ahead. I went to Mudeford and Christchurch in January and right now, I don’t have an empty blog spot to put it in until mid-June. Some shuffling and rescheduling will be required. In the middle of January, my mum collapsed in … More Wessex Girl: a day around Mudeford and Christchurch
One of the permanent annual fixtures on my calendar is an “adventure” with Tom on the day after Boxing Day. You may remember Tom from Lyme Regis last year, Charmouth in 2017, Swanage in 2016 or from our trip to Edinburgh two years ago. We generally go to the coast. We like a bit of … More Lulworth Cove: Tom & Julie’s Annual Adventure
Today I’m taste-testing two very different lots of chocolate. In the red corner, we have two brands of Russian chocolate, picked up in the supermarket on my first evening in Moscow, carried around Russia for nearly three weeks and then left in my room for over a month. In the…. also red corner, we have … More Swiss chocolate vs Russian chocolate
I Am A Polar Bear 