Midsummer in Shetland: Diary for week one. I’ve now been in Shetland for a week, and already I’ve been – as previously mentioned – chased from a field by bonxie birds, ran the gauntlet walking through the world’s third largest colony of them six days...
Postcards from Southern Shetland, We rolled off the overnight ferry from Aberdeen to be greeted by an overcast morning in Lerwick. From the deck of the ship I’d stood for a moment, shivering, taking in the view as the ferry slowly made its way up...
We’re Sailing to the North Scottish Islands! Shetland’s islands are calling; I’ve yet to visit our most northerly isles, where the sun barely sets at midsummer, where winter days are but a few hours long. And it’s that midsummer sun I’m going for. I had big...
Take the train, not a plane. I’d spent most of the night acutely aware of every bump in the rails, every bridge, every station; it was the beginning of a very long rail journey that would ultimately take me to Vietnam and the train...
Fremantle to Albany. We had been on the road for almost four weeks on the day we left Fremantle, Perth had seemed so far away when we set off from Broome back then and now continuing the journey to Melbourne seemed unimaginably long: we had...
5 Beautiful Mosques Seen Through My Eyes. I have been extremely lucky to have traveled the world and visited these beautiful mosques. Mostly through trade, Islam spread to the far corners of the world and it has brought me great joy to visit historic mosques from...
Kalbarri to Perth It’s not every day that you meet a princess, and a princess called Shirley at that! Princess Shirley stamped our passports into, and out of, the Hutt River Province: a marvellous ‘Kingdom’ in Western Australia – or, to you and me, a...
Killiecrankie “I went above the pass where I met with another water very deep, it was about eighteen foot over betwixt two rocks, I resolved to jump it, so I laid down my gun and hat and jumped and lost one of my shoes in...
Shark Bay Stromatolites and Dolphins Bill Bryson’s witty travel jaunt Down Under had filled my head with Australia-infused wanderlust from the moment I read it, and driving up the dusty red road towards the Hamelin Pool Telegraph Station and Campground we were both filled with...
Our Demountable Camper Home So, here is our new nomadic home: it’s tiny but it is everything we want from life! If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll have seen my old home on wheels, well this is something very different indeed! This...
My Top 3 bucket List Destinations A competition to win a trip next winter to experience the Northern Lights from the Arctic Circle is absolutely something I have to enter! After my dip into Nordic Europe over the winter I have become obsessed with returning,...
Cape Range National Park The week we spent in the Cape Range National Park is one of the greatest weeks of my life, I’m so happy to share this extraordinary place and our experiences there with you! Continuing on with our Aussie road trip from...
In August 2008 we embarked on an epic road trip from Broome, in Western Australia, to Melbourne. A journey that would take 2 months and over 9000 kilometres, hugging the coastline. Our trusty overland vehicle wasn’t the robust stead we were hoping for, our budget...
In a previous post I explained my somewhat strange reasons for learning Finnish and I thought it would be a good idea to share some of the techniques I’ve found that are helping me learn this difficult and fascinating language. >> I have written an...
Liechtenstein is tiny. This landlocked principality is sandwiched between Austria and Switzerland in the Alps and is the sixth smallest country in the world. With a population of less than 40,000 people, who enjoy a very high standard of living, Liechtenstein is one of the world’s...
Feldkirch, Austria. Feldkirch is a pretty little Austrian town near the German, Switzerland and Liechtenstein borders, therefore a great place to base yourself! After our three-week stay in Konstanz, Germany, our friend Tom drove us to Feldkirch passing through all the aforementioned countries in a...
