I’ve talked a lot about being a language student and having a year abroad – in Switzerland, in my case. You might not know about that. I might not have mentioned it in the last five minutes (I wrote a blog about my year abroad last month). But I haven’t talked a lot about the … More Stay At Home Storytelling: What it’s like to be a language student in the UK
If you haven’t come across the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme… well, let me explain. What is the DofE? A life-changing experience. A fun time with friends. An opportunity to discover new interests and talents. A tool to develop essential skills for life and work. A recognised mark of achievement; respected by employers. It’s an … More Stay At Home Storytelling: My DofE practice expedition
I’ll be going back to my tales of the past soon enough but today we’re going right to the present, right to my life in isolation. There’s stuff going on around here, stuff I don’t want to talk about on the blog, but around the stuff, I’m not actually minding isolation too much. I’m working from … More Stay At Home Storytelling: Camping at Home
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
I was a caver at university. Have I mentioned that? Well, in these isolated days of little new material for travel and adventure blogs, I thought I’d show you my SRT kit. Sometimes you need to climb up or down a rope. Big caves in mountain ranges across Europe make this, plus several miles of … More Stay At Home Storytelling: meet my SRT kit
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
Well, now seems as good a time as any to go back to my trip to Russia last year because one of my major projects at the moment is to get the scrapbook finished. The main obstacle is picking which of the 2-300 photos to have printed. The other obstacle is making it fit in … More Stay At Home Storytelling: Russia scrapbook, Moscow pages
I was supposed to be in Iceland last month. Obviously, that didn’t happen. Icelandair have been very good about changing flights for free so after being on hold for 77 minutes, I moved my flights to November and the tour companies I’d booked stuff with both have policies of refunds if you cancel more than … More Stay At Home Storytelling: The Iceland itinerary I had planned
I’ve mentioned, ooh, about ten thousand times that I possess a degree in French and Spanish. A Modern Foreign Languages degree course, for an average student-age student, includes a mandatory year abroad in a country where your language is spoken. Or it did in my day, when we were a member of the EU and … More Stay at Home Storytelling: A day in the life of an international student
So. Everything I’ve posted since coronavirus took over the world was written and scheduled around Christmas and the first half of January. Now we settle properly into the oddities of maintaining a travel blog when no one can travel. So what I’m going to do is metaphorically invite you to join me around the campfire … More Stay At Home Storytelling: a Keycamp kid
I Am A Polar Bear 