My travels across the British landscape. I aim to visit, and take on physical challenges, in the most wild and beautiful parts of my home country.
You can definitely get carried away with hiking gear. There is a lot of choice and a LOT of technology to consider. I mean there’s raincoats now with seemingly more technology than my first mobile phone! Don’t get me wrong, there’s some quality products out there that’ll keep you...
The world a big place. There is so much to see and experience, and it’s relatively easy, cheap and fast to get anywhere in the world. So naturally, most people are looking to visit the faraway and the exotic. In my home country of England, people tend to want...
What Halloween means for people in England seems to change as you grow up. As a kid, it’s all scary masks and knocking on doors ‘trick-or-treating’ to gather a treasure load of sweets. As a teenager (or certainly in the suburban London area I grew up in), Halloween essentially...
This article contains affiliate links, meaning we’ll earn a small commission if you purchase through these links. The commission is paid by the retailers, at no extra cost to you. After a month of work after Christmas, through the dreariness of January, I decided to take a random day...
Since moving north from London to Manchester almost four years ago, I have met many Yorkshire folk, and there is always a fierce pride on show if the Yorkshire Dales come up in conversation. “…far more beautiful than Lancashire” they would claim, occasionally a reference to “God’s county”, the...
“We should turn back now; I can’t see anything, and you’ve left the phones in the car!” Half-way up the slope of Dunkery Beacon, the highest point of Exmoor at 520 metres, and it had appeared that my timings had been optimistic and preparations poor. Dunkery Beacon clearly isn’t...
I believe that the West Country really is very different to the rest of England. Greener, slower, healthier; the pace of life shifts down a couple of gears when you cross into the boot-shaped corner of Britain. This region of England is unspoilt, far less industrial and brings you...