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Hunstanton

Sunday, 13th October 2013

North-west Norfolk is just a 90 minute drive from Rutland so on Saturday we visited the Norfolk coastline. We drove to Hunstanton and then got the local bus to Thornham and walked back along the beach. The beach was empty, except for the large numbers of birdwatchers. We asked one of them what they were …

Hiking over Fimmvorthuhals Pass

Saturday, 24th August 2013

Looking across the fresh lava flow to Magni, one of the new craters on Eyjafjallajokull.

A glorious two day walk across a mountain pass between two volcanoes...

More wet adventures in Iceland

Wednesday, 21st August 2013

Sight-seeing around Iceland continued for another day, this time with visits to the Skaftafell National Park and then to JÃ¶kulsÃ¡rlÃ³n. We arrived at Skaftafell to rain and fog and ‘enjoyed’ a very damp meal of sweet and sour noodles with about 50 other people under a very crowded shelter. The next morning we awoke to …

Snowy Scotland 2

Tuesday, 8th January 2013

Day 4. Meall Tionail On day 4, we went fellrunning from Glen Feshie with Katy and Jamie. It was Jamie’s first ever fell run and the 2 hour run quadrupled the amount of time that Jamie had ever spent running! From Glen Feshie we ran up to Meall Tionail, affectionately renamed ‘Black Toenail’ by Richard. …