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From Slovakia
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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
Category: Water Sports
Water based sports (sailing, boating, water skiing, etc.).
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…
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 …
