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From Great Glen Canoe Trail

Category: Travel

World travel.

Slovakia

Monday, 22nd September 2025

I had hopes of seeing some ex-soviet brutalist culture when visiting Slovakia. In that regard I was disappointed. Slovakia, despite being very far to the east – just about as far east as Europe goes, is best described with just one word – beautiful…

Knockinaam Lodge

Sunday, 15th December 2024

As a very special pre-xmas treat Laetitia took us to the most amazing hotel for a complete five-star experience. Knockinaam Lodge is famed not just for its luxury accommodation and food, but also for its links to John Buchan and his book The 39 Steps; and to Churchill, who stayed here to plan parts of …

Austrian Cragging

Monday, 30th September 2024

On the way to Austria we stopped in Bamberg for a night. Not only did we snag a great German beer and Sausage dinner we also just happened to be in Bamberg during a music festival. The town was very lively! 🙂 Peilstein Our first destination in Austria was Peilstein. We had two days here …

New York

Sunday, 29th October 2023

Part of my interest in visiting the Gunks for climbing was also the possibility of seeing perhaps the most famous city in the world, New York…

The adventure begins in Mysore

Sunday, 20th November 2022

The journey began as all adventures should – trains, planes, and automobiles: Derby to Birmingham, to Dubai, to Bangalore, and then on to Mysore.

Southern India Odyssey

Friday, 18th November 2022

Way back in January 2020 I had a little time on my hands. I had taken the first 3 months of 2020 off work and was due back at the beginning of April. I wanted to end the break with a holiday to remember, one full of activity and adventure.

Cap Blanc-Nez

Wednesday, 24th August 2022

One final instalment to the Chamonix ’22 trip and the journey home – back when Ian and I went out to France in June we stopped in a super cheap hotel in Calais the night before our early ferry back to Dover. We ate dinner in a simple bar in town and noted that the …

Vertus, and Champagne!

Wednesday, 24th August 2022

It was time to leave Chamonix, the weather was poor there for a few days so an early escape from the rain promised sunny dry rock and adventure elsewhere. We plotted a route home via what looked like a very interesting limestone crag in the middle of the flatlands of the beautiful Champagne region…

Great Glen Canoe Trail

Thursday, 16th September 2021

The second part of our Scottish Staycation was on the Great Glen Canoe Trail: over 90km from Fort William to Inverness…