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From French Misadventures 2023
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From Pabbay
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From Easter with Laurence & Megan
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From From Alleppey to the coast and to Fort Kochin
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From To Alleppey
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From Leonidio - under new Covid-19 restrictions ...
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From Great Glen Canoe Trail
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From Lakeland August Bank Holiday
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From German Visitors
Category: Water Sports
Water based sports (sailing, boating, water skiing, etc.).
Our summer jollies to the Alps this year had mixed results…
We’ve been looking forward to and fearing our trip to Pabbay, a remote and uninhabited tiny island off Scotland in the Bishop Isles, in varyingly different amounts for some time…
Thankfully the long Easter weekend was blessed with a brilliant sunny forecast, perfect for our visiting nephew, Laurence, and his girlfriend, Megan, to see some of the best the Lake District has to offer…
Leaving the luxurious house boat behind, we got back on the bikes and cycled a short 30km to the beach.
Leaving the spice plantation behind us, we started the journey toward Allepey. The smells were still amazing, with drying cardamon wafting through the air.
Back in September we got super excited at the prospect of our first foreign travel trip since the Covid pandemic brought travel to its knees, and we’d booked ourselves on our first post-lockdown trip abroad … to the Moroccan Anti-Atlas mountains in early December for 10 days of glorious trad climbing before Xmas. Then, with …
The second part of our Scottish Staycation was on the Great Glen Canoe Trail: over 90km from Fort William to Inverness…
It seems that global warming is real! Who knew? Anyway, that means that we had great weather for the August Bank Holiday in the Lakes, when really we all know it should have been raining… 😉 A Longish Bike Ride A day on the Water Paddling from Grasmere, via the Rothay and Rydal Water, to …
After getting back from the Alps our friends from Karlsruhe cam to stay for a few days. The weather wasn’t perfect (we had a bit of rain), but we got out a fair bit with them and enjoyed a wide range of Lakeland adventuring – canoeing, scrambling, climbing, walking, exploring the slate mines, etc! We …
