Wanderings

Aiming to get up to Shetland for a weekend right at the end of November was always likely to be a little bit touch and go.  I was picturin...

Exploring the South end. We spent the first half of October getting to know the house, and getting to know the south end of Shetland mainla...

It’s confession time.  Until a few weeks ago, I knew very little about Slovenia and really only had a pretty limited grasp of where it was. ...

A Tale of Two Bank Holidays In May we spent a couple of weeks on Shetland – some of the time was spent touristing with a group of knitters...

Travel guidebooks and, indeed, tour leaders have a predilection for adjectival overload. “Svalbard is the destination for an unforgettable...

"It’s going to be a bit lumpy today".  There are certain phrases that just aren’t good, and the lumpy phrase is way up there.  Fro...

An annual trip to Barcelona is a good idea.   It's 12 months since I was last there and this time (Icelandic volcanoes not withstandi...

I’ve been thinking about the North again, reflecting on my previous trips, and anticipating the two trips I’ve got to the far North over the...

Today should have been my day for blogging about my latest trip to Barcelona and perhaps for posting a few new pictures from Las Ramblas or ...

There’s nowhere we’ve been to more often than North Devon.  Despite my habit of keeping notes of where I’ve been, I really don’t know how ma...

A short break from the UK winter - and a chance to add another country to my list.  Somehow I hadn't managed to get round to visiting Po...

A holiday in the north of Scotland in winter is always a bit of a lottery - the temperature can vary from close to double figures (in centig...

Life is always full of dreams - some get fulfilled but others somehow don’t and remain with us, sometimes for many years. I left my childh...

Recently I spent some time at the Destinations Show in London - I hadn't been to the London version of the show before having previously...

One of the problems with the UK is that it's just too small.  I can drive from Oxford to the southern-most tip of Cornwall on the same d...

Most years we do the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch (this year it's 30th & 31st January), but this morning turned into a rehearsal.  An...

In what seems to have now become another regular event - the country (at least the bit I'm in) has ground to a halt again under a layer ...

The turn of the year is an obvious time to reflect on the last 12 months, and to give some serious thought to the next 12.  It’s also the ti...

Finished my travelling for 2009 by spending a week in western Denmark - which got the same heavy pre-Christmas fall of snow that hit souther...

Big Cat Diary - Scottish-style: Lynx, Amur Tiger and Highland Wildcat. These are three of the attractions currently in the Highland Wildlif...