We have actual travel content today! I went on my first holiday of 2021! It was a two night camping trip, except it was slightly better than camping because I was in a tree tent! Brownsea adventure camping has finally, after 100+ years, opened to the general public. I’ve camped with my Guides before and … More Brownsea adventure camping review | Tree Camping June 2021
My first post-lockdown real thing was that I met up with my friend Catherine for a countryside walk a couple of weeks ago. Catherine is a nature connection guide and feminine rewilding coach, a retreat host, a wanderer and an artist and all that makes her a very good companion for a country walk. She’d … More A Single Map: A walk and a nature lesson
Last year I went to Wareham and hired a canoe. I knew from experience the year before that although rowing boats are so much more romantic, they’re a lot heavier and a lot more difficult to manoeuvre. So having discovered that canoes are easier, I went off to Wareham on the first niceish day of … More How to do an (accidental) handbrake turn in a canoe
Well, there’s nothing like Lyme Regis on a stormy day in what should be late spring/early summer. I like Lyme Regis. It’s my first port of call if I decide to go fossil hunting and I’ll look for fossils even if I only went there for the fun of it. The two go together like … More Lyme Regis on a stormy day
It’s been years since I’ve been to Monkey World and so naturally, the moment it closed down for the plague was the moment I really wanted to go again and at last I have. First things first. Yes, Monkey World is a tourist attraction. No, it’s not a zoo. It’s not a safari park, a … More Dorset Staycation: Monkey World
I haven’t done A Single Map in a while – well, not on the blog. I’ve done walks on my map most weeks in real life. We met a lot of cows on this most recent walk! We were using the Sturminster Newton walks again – the last of the five long ones – but … More A Single Map: walking with cows
Unless the pandemic takes another horrible turn, today should be the day when self-contained accommodation reopens and that means today might not be a terrible day to give you some ideas for a 1 week Dorset staycation itinerary. (Let me just point out that I know there are two uses of the word “staycation” and the … More Dorset staycation itinerary (Poole & Purbeck edition)
We’re back on my Single Map today with another country walk and we’re going from Fiddleford to Piddles Wood. One of Dorset’s most endearing qualities is the ridiculousness of some of its names. A few years ago that spawned a quiz called Dorset Village or NFL Player? and I particularly enjoyed that one of the … More A Single Map: Fiddleford to Piddles Wood
With a summer approaching that’s likely to feature more UK breaks than summer beach holidays in Spain, now seems a good time to talk about my night at Loch Spiggie. I was in Orkney for a few days and figured I’d pop over to Shetland because it’s right there and because it’s quite a trek … More A night at Loch Spiggie
Today is Thinking Day, a kind of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting birthday. I’ve spent Thinking Day at Pax Lodge three times now. I went for the day with another leader in 2020, where we could feel the pandemic drawing in around us. I went for the day on my own in 2019 but spent … More Thinking Day at Pax Lodge
I Am A Polar Bear 