One thing that a lot of people like to do on holiday is go to the pool and that’s a bit difficult at the moment. However, if you’re staycationing in Dorset or Wiltshire (the border between the two pretty much runs through the north of the town), salvation is at hand in the form of … More Dorset Staycation: Shaftesbury Oasis review
Since we can’t go abroad at the moment – well, without risking a last-minute quarantine announcement – people are staycationing and they seem to be flocking in their millions to the south-west. I live in the south-west and this is my personal guide to Swanage. Swanage is a small seaside town in Dorset. It’s been … More Dorset Staycation: a local’s guide to Swanage
In today’s post, I’m going to talk about family holidays in Tirol, since both my parents were somewhat mournful last week that “we were supposed to go to Austria today”. Yeah, I’m supposed to have gone to Iceland twice this year. Life hasn’t gone as planned this year. But it gave me an idea for … More Top 10 things to do in Tirol
In 2017, I decided I could save some luggage space and maybe some money by, instead of hiring a car and taking a tent, hiring a campervan. I knew approximately what it was going to look like before I picked it up but people at home didn’t and my grandmother was adamant – told my … More Upgrading from a tent to a campervan
Since I’m not travelling at the moment, I’ve been catching up on documenting previous travels – in the form of travel scrapbooks. I’ve done them sporadically over the years (my earliest is the school French exchange in 1998 and it was of course the educational part of the “holiday abroad with your friends when you’re … More Travel scrapbooking part 1: 10 things to take
Ok, it’s very obvious I’m not a professional photographer and I don’t actually have a camera bag. But I do take photos when I travel and I keep trying to make videos so I haul around more camera stuff than I really should. Panasonic Lumix DC-TZ90 This is my main camera. It’s the fifth generation … More What’s in my camera bag?
I’ve been writing some Iceland blogs lately and I’m also trying to write an uncooperative and recalcitrant Iceland Book. That means I’ve had my little Icelandic reference library out. It’s not quite what you would find in a real library but I find it handy and I thought it might be useful to you to … More My Icelandic reference library
In November 2015, I went to Svalbard – that’s those really cold polar bear-infested islands right up north. It was amazing and I’ve since calculated that I was among the northernmost 0.004% of people in the world, which is quite a claim – that more than 99.99% of people on the planet are south of … More How to travel to Svalbard
I notice that a lot of people on the internet have two things. YouTubers with a hugely successful profitable Instagram. Bloggers who start a YouTube channel or a podcast. Instagrammers who create makeup pallets. And some people have multiple things – they call them revenue streams if they’re managing to make a living out of them – … More I’m writing a book: the difficult second album (and 11 things people don’t know about publishing a book)
Because I am all over all things Iceland, when I heard about Zac Efron in Iceland, I went and watched episode one of his new Netflix series, Down to Earth (actually, I had no idea about it but my sister watched it and took sufficient interest to be able to make noises at me that … More Down to Earth with Zac Efron: episode 1, Iceland
I Am A Polar Bear 