Local travel around the Wessex Area. I’m a Wessex Girl through and through (we’re more into wellies and cider than white stilettos and cocktails) and these are my posts about travel, adventure and holidays around Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Devon and Somerset.
Are you looking for a holiday around Bournemouth? Got you. What’s good to do on the Isle of Wight? Got you! Christmas on a heritage railway? Oh yes, got that too. Plenty of seaside, camping and family days out here, so take a look and see what catches your eye.
I have a habit of feeling a desire to go away in winter, somewhere cosy, where I’ll wear cute cottagecore outfits and I’ll just relax and read books and it’ll be a winter wellness break. In 2020 and 2022, I went glamping in a shepherd’s hut with amazing views but it seems that particular hut… More Welcome to St Agnes
Well, this is an odd day. Two posts in one day. The every-other-day Twelve Days of Christmas has collided with the Tuesday video. Yep, it’s new video day and today is a tour of my shepherd’s hut-slash-tin tabernacle, St Agnes in Cornwall. The blog version is coming on Thursday if you’d rather see the non-moving… More New video: St Agnes tin tabernacle shepherd’s hut tour
When I left you last week, I was just getting home from my adventures on the water – and when I say “home”, I mean back to my tent near Corfe Castle. So this is what else I got up to. First, I snoozed a bit and then stuffed my face with Pringles and chocolate… More My Outdoors: on dry land
Last summer, I set off to Purbeck intent on a weekend of “adventure”, which I spent at Norden Farm Campsite, exploring Corfe village in the pouring rain, doing my first sea swim and getting to jump into the cab of a heritage steam locomotive. This year I found myself back there for the “My Outdoors”… More My Outdoors: a night on the water
It’s Sunday night and I’m fresh from the bath, with face, hair and feel all scrubbed and made soft after feeling like a disgusting camp goblin for the last few days and I’m so much more chilled and calm than the creature who loaded up a small car and set off on Friday. I have… More Can camping heal the soul?
It’s three and a half weeks since I walked the South Downs Way and I guess it’s time to switch my brain on and do a little analysis. I knew what this post was going to say, word for word, while I was limping through the countryside but when I got home and tried to… More What I learned about myself, long-distance hiking and kit on the South Downs Way
Not all of it! I didn’t walk the entire length of the South Downs Way. I didn’t even walk the entire length of what I had planned. But I managed 28km of it, which is 17.5% and that’s not bad. My plan was days one and two as given by both the South Downs Way… More I walked the South Downs Way!
Every year, my friend Tom and I go for a “Christmas Adventure”. We started doing it in 2014 and it’s become a beloved ritual. We even managed it in 2020 and 2021 (with special guest Catherine!) – we both had to drive, which meant no wine and we had to keep our distance but it… More A winter’s day at Mudeford: Christmas Adventure 2022
Yesterday I talked vaguely about having a lazy weekend. Hot tub, children’s books, biscuits, that sort of thing. Well, today let’s do the “what did I do?” post. Friday doesn’t count. I arrived Friday and stargazed from the hot tub. Very nice. On Saturday, after an early-morning snow flurry, I went to Yeovil in the… More Glamping in the snow
And we come to the semi-live part of Blogmas! At the time of publishing, I’m in Germany and I only had a handful of hours last Monday afternoon to get this post finished between returning from my glamping trip and heading off at 5am for the flight to Germany! Anyway, welcome to the Forager shepherd’s… More A winter wellness break in a tin hut