All the latest news from my adventures
Here’s all the latest news; new trips, new advice, new stories, sharing information, links and recommendations you might find interesting.
Chocolate, anyone?
The connection is: firstly, I can safely say chocolate is an essential ingredient of my mountain days, and secondly, my daughter makes fabulous home made chocolate. So what better reasons than those, to promote her small artisan business, making delicious bespoke...
West Highland Way: 9 reasons why I’ll walk this again
I did a recce because I was going to lead this for RWH in October. Alas, that’s cancelled because the hotel and transport had huge price increases after covid, and it was no longer viable. But all is not lost, I know for sure this is an area to re visit, so if RWH...
Winter Lockdown nature notes: still here!
Ah yes, you may have noticed I missed a week, but who‘s counting? Here are my notes for the last fortnight. I think at the moment, to fast forward over the odd day isn‘t a bad idea. Walking from Dinton, near Salisbury, we saw a number of chalk streams, and these are...
Winter Lockdown nature notes week 6
Friday. We saw a couple of blackbirds hopping jauntily about. A blackbird with the most curious white patch on his head hopped around our garden for a couple of years, disappeared, then lo! Two years later, back he came...could it have been the same bird with the very...
Winter Lockdown Nature Notes: week 5
Lichen, blobby trees and saffron! My week started with an extension of the lovely walk south of Bath around Combe Hay and South Stoke. A highlight was walking through the long abandoned Somerset Coal canal, with the extraordinary zig zag canal construction and...
Winter lockdown nature notes: week 4
Nature notes week starts on a Friday, and what a great walk it was: winter sunshine on the hills and vales west of Salisbury. Spectacular fungi today, not an area I know too much about yet. The black balls we found are King Alfreds cakes, with some great facts: The...