Kayaking in Salen Bay We left Oban on the lunchtime ferry crossing, and arrived into Craignure an hour later. (Neither…
Memories of Mull
Kayaking in Salen Bay We left Oban on the lunchtime ferry crossing, and arrived into Craignure an hour later. (Neither of us are good on boats, but fortunately this crossing […]
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Cloud Forest Central: Santa Elena, Costa Rica
Getting to Santa Elena Although Santa Elena isn’t far from La Fortuna as the crow flies, if you’re not blessed with a set of wings or a Flying Ford Anglia […]
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How to Plan an Affordable European City Break on a Tight Budget
How to plan an affordable European city break on a tight budget with step-by-step tips, real costs, cheap flights, budget eats, and free activities.
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How to Plan a Multi-Day Mountain Trek with Overnight Camping Guide
Learn how to plan a multi-day mountain trek with overnight camping including gear, safety tips, trail selection, and trip preparation for hikers.
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Two Days in Toulouse (Part 1)
Toulouse took me by surprise. As someone who’s not so fussed on city breaks these days, I didn’t expect to like France’s fourth-largest city as much as I did. So […]
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Pentland Hills Regional Park: Turnhouse Hill, Carnethy Hill and Scald Law in Winter
We tend to go into hibernation on the hiking front over the winter months, for a variety of reasons: the (often) inclement weather, the limited daylight hours, not owning the […]
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Fife Coastal Path: St. Monans to Pittenweem
Six weeks of school holidays were almost up. On the very last day, we ventured across to Fife. The plan? A trip to Bowhouse, on the outskirts of St. Monans, […]
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Cairngorms National Park: Tolmount and Tom Buidhe
There are a small number of Munros to the south-east of Braemar that, for reasons which I can no longer recall, we didn’t include on our extensive Munro-bagging trip to […]
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Pico do Cedro, Madeira
We couldn’t resist the chance of catching another sunrise from the summit of Pico do Areeiro. As we had already done the classic Pico to Pico (aka PR1: Pico do […]
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Toronto’s Highlights
After Montréal, our next stop (following a six hour ride on the Megabus) was Toronto, Canada’s most populous city. After the je ne sais quoi somewhat European feeling of Montréal’s […]
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