Outdoors

“Like walking in 4-Wheel Drive” was how Elaine described Nordic Walking to me, as we strode along the snow covered path on Dartmoor. I’m no …

Today’s walk on the Tour de Mont Blanc would take us from Ferret in Switzerland, over the high mountain pass into Italy. The previous day’s …

After walking on the Tour de Mont Blanc in September, I was pleased to take a somewhat less arduous stroll in the Pyrenees at Vall …

Our previous year’s Tour de Mont Blanc walk had taken us across the mountains from France into Switzerland. Now our train from Geneva airport was …

As you leave the green plain on the south side of the Greek island of Zakynthos, the land rises into dry, mountainous terrain that makes …

Getting up close and personal with the fabled big 5 in Africa is the dream of many a traveller, but long believed to a privilege …

The South Downs Way offers white chalk cliffs at one end and leafy lanes at the other. The long distance trail meanders through Southern England, …

Cycling around the Channel Island of Sark last weekend I spotted a number of Royals dressed up as scarecrows. They were part of the Scarecrow …

April and May are the Bluebell months in England but the April showers were also plentiful this year. For several weekends I’d been watching the …

In this travel podcast (No 21 in my podcast series) I’m walking the Tour de Mont Blanc with my friend Julia. The TMB, as it’s …

The Gower peninsula is the part of South Wales that looks like the lower jaw of the Welsh wolf’s head on the map. It was …