Poland: Krakow & The High Tatras
Commercial air travel remains something of a miracle. This tin can launching itself into the sky, full of people who maybe grew up dreaming of one day doing it. And […]
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The United Kingdom: The West Highland Way
Preparation is never enough. I blame the wet winter, the cold spring. The failure of successive global governments to do anything at all about the impending climate crisis. I weigh […]
The United Kingdom: Northumberland
In the only howling day of rain on our holiday we’re in the car. We stop on the way North in Alnwick, where Autumn has most definitely arrived. We pull […]
The United Kingdom: Whitby
The year slips in to the period where the clouds begin to look painted on. Renaissance skies stretch across the soft hills of my current world. We’re leaving in the […]
The United Kingdom: Hayle
The car, christened somewhat ironically as Brutus, blows another leak in the coolant. It was my own stupid fault for taking it out on the hottest day of the year […]
The Ridgeway: Ashbury to Middlehill Down
I’ve got plans in mind. We’ve got a long weekend, maybe we could get out to the Ridgeway twice. Maybe, maybe, maybe. We’re also approaching the time of year when […]
The Ridgeway: Ogbourne St George to Ashbury Hill
Every time I tell my Dad it isn’t going to rain again until October I hope I’m wrong. I don’t want to die this summer. I want the 5-7 years […]
The South Downs Way: Winchester to Eastbourne
A year is no time at all and also a lifetime. The trail fitness I had when I got home is long gone. Edges softened. I finally put my almost […]
The Ridgeway: Barbury Castle to Ogbourne St George
I keep telling myself I have to start. I booked a week off work to do the South Downs Way. I’m not ready, but there’s time. There’s always time. I […]
Portugal: Madeira
A pile of clothes lies untouched in the corner of my room. A year ago grows closer. I wake up to find the world is all highlights and shadows. The […]
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