19 Aug 2019
Emerging through deep canyons onto vast, soaring plains, a lone tumbleweed blew across the road stretching out ahead of us in the soft late afternoon light. Have you ever seen a view so beautiful...
24 May 2019
Online packing lists usually fall into two camps. Either you’re confronted with utilitarian bullet points incorporating bare essentials, seemingly written by a practical pensioner with little to no interest in fashion (do you really...
07 May 2019
Swathes of mangrove thickets teeming with life and lengths of volcanic beaches devoid of shade. Breathtakingly beautiful colonial architecture and island towns steeped in the colourful West Indian culture of their ancestors. You can see...
07 Jan 2019
My walking poles tapped on the stones as I leaned into them, legs pounding up the switchback trails. Squinting in the sun, I heard my grandpa’s voice say in my head. “Go on lass,...
23 Nov 2017
When you tell people you’re going to Israel, the usual reaction is either “Oh wow!” or “Israel? Why?” – I always prefer the second response. I’d always wanted to go to Israel as I’d...
18 Jul 2017
Costa Rica is exactly the place you imagine it to be and more. Of all countries I’ve been to, Costa Rica is up there with the most beautiful. It’s a tropical paradise of verdant,...
29 Mar 2017
Human beings are made up of lots of different emotional layers. Sometimes we forget about the layers that are hidden and over time, more layers build up, burying forgotten layers further and further down...
09 Oct 2016
I was terrified of getting sea sick on the ferry over from Plymouth so I did everything I possibly could to avert nausea. I sat as still as possible, munching ginger biscuits, noise cancelling headphones...
15 Sep 2016
I didn’t have the heart to write this blog post yesterday, but after we almost got flooded in the crazy thunderstorm last night it helped me put things into perspective. When you put a...
05 Sep 2016
It’s the end of week 1 of our van conversion project and the days are slipping by pretty quickly. Finding some spare hours here to do odds and ends has been a big priority as we...