The other weekend I went for my first ever Moonlight Swim at Shepton Mallet lido. It’s an event they put on during the summer at the full moon and it features a two-hour outdoor swim by moonlight, firelight and fairy lights and a free hot chocolate to warm up afterwards. It’s a heated pool, heated … More Moonlight Swim at Shepton Mallet lido
I didn’t know I was going to Tintagel or I’d have 1) booked tickets to the castle 2) read my guidebook about the village 3) taken the Once and Future King with me. But I thought I was having a weekend walking on Dartmoor so I didn’t do any of that! It was my birthday … More An unexpected day at Tintagel | Camping on Dartmoor July 2021
In mid-June and late July, I went camping just off the edge of Dartmoor. It was supposed to be two weekends in June but the campsite was booked out and so I had to change my dates (and got a free night thrown in). I’d like to talk about the campsite but I have such … More Oaktree Lane Dartmoor campsite review | Camping on Dartmoor July 2021
Last week I went back to Brownsea Island for another two nights camping in a tree tent. I learned some lessons from the first time round and I want to tell you about five things I did differently the second time. 1) I didn’t take a sleeping bag You have to carry everything a mile … More Tree camping: 5 things I did differently | Tree Camping July 2021
After my last post about hiking solo, today I’m taking you along on a solo hike! I needed a Dartmoor logbook walk (10+km, in Open country – there are lots of other details but that’s the important bit) but I also wanted quite a gentle walk and my guidebook suggested this one, a Princetown branch … More A gentle Princetown branch railway walk | Camping on Dartmoor June 2021
If you haven’t read Monday’s post on how I fared with my Discover Award, go and read that now. Then come back here and see how the Explore Award went. I said last time that Antz wanted me to do a bow rescue, to hang upside down under a closed cockpit kayak and that I … More … and then I got my Explore Award!
I’ve done a little bit of kayaking before and while I’m not overburdened with talent at it, I’d decided kayaking suits me far better than sailing did. So much so that I decided back in 2017 to get my One Star Award. I got as far as booking it and then the group that actually … More I went kayaking and got my Discover Award!
I’m quite a recent convert to glamping. I’m a low-maintenance sort of bear, who’s usually going to default to her own two-man tent in a field with minimal facilities. But I have a major weakness: hot tubs. You may remember the first time I gave in to the allure of my own hot tub, when … More The Pleasant Pheasant: shepherd’s hut review | Glamping in North Dorset
I found Farmstead Glamping entirely by chance. I was out on a walk, the muddiest walk I’ve ever done, and the lane that led home (well, to the car) passed by the entrance of a small campsite and from the hedge, I spied a shepherd’s hut. I got home and did my research and discovered … More A mini-holiday in North Dorset at Farmstead Glamping | Glamping in North Dorset
No matter how far the twenty-first century marches on, no matter what it throws at us, camping on an uninhabited island will always feel like something out of a 1920s children’s adventure story. My weekend camping on Brownsea Island was full-on Swallows and Amazons, minus the cooking fire (Brownsea is too much of a fire … More A peaceful weekend on Brownsea Island | Tree Camping June 2021
I Am A Polar Bear 