Suomenlinna in Snow. The little ferry made its way along the narrow blue ribbon of sea cut through the ice, the broken chunks of which knocked against the hull turning this simple commute from Helsinki to Suomenlinna feel more like an adventure than a short...
Frozen Helsinki I returned to the city I’d ached for after leaving a year ago. A city and country that had stayed in my thoughts for much of the last 12 months. When I’d been in Helsinki in December 2014 I’d been too early to...
Mürren, Switzerland My boots crunched through the compacted snow, I breathed in the crisp alpine air and took in the spectacular vista surrounding me. A footpath had been cut into the deep snow, a white corridor high up above the Lauterbrunnen valley. The majestic peaks...
Snowlife Vanlife It snowed last night. This overwhelmed me with childish glee, those first flakes of winter are so magical aren’t they? The snow falls and you remember the fun, the beauty, the romance of a white winter. But the grown-up you crushes the glee...
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...
Konstanz, Germany Locations don’t often get more beautiful and photogenic than Konstanz’s jaw-dropping position on the edge of Lake Constance. This dazzling lake is enclosed by the distant white peaks of the Austrian Alps, forming a spectacular backdrop for this old German town. With Switzerland...
Tampere, Finland Tampere resulted in a number of Finnish firsts for me: my first Finnish sauna, my first Finnish snow and my first taste of some of Finland’s distinctive food stuffs (you know, the stuff that graces Huffpost lists because it is quite unlike anything...
Yolyn Am After our fun frolicking in the Khongoryn Sand Dunes, another day in our little Soviet van beckoned. We would be heading to Yolyn Am, a rocky canyon to the west. From the dunes we travelled through the wide valley, the dunes to the...
We reached an extremely wide, featureless and bird-less plain, the van ground to a halt. From the noise we knew this didn’t sound good. We had broken down.
There are few blacktop roads in Mongolia once you leave the smog blanketed chaos of Ulaanbaatar, out in the desert it takes knowledge and experience to navigate the wide open plains. The sun and the stars become your road signs, mountains and rock formations guide...
By the following evening we were sipping fresh orange and carrot juice on the busy streets of Amman… It was an easy and comfortable bus journey from Damascus to Amman. We shared the bus with some very well-behaved Jordanian school boys in football strips and...
I managed to fulfil a lifetime {and very geeky} ambition over the winter, I visited my #1 007, James Bond location, the one at the very top of the list. As far as I’m concerned, it is the ultimate, most iconic of all the 007...
The clouds we’d seen all week disappeared from the valley revealing a beautiful blue sky so we took the cable car up to pretty Mürren. Sitting over 1600 metres above sea level at the end of the Lauterbrunnen valley, Mürren has impressive views of the Eiger, Monch...
Christmas markets in Switzerland really help to get you into the Christmas spirit! The Lauterbrunnen Christmas Market was on our second night after arriving. We walked down along the river with our torches, in the freshly fallen snow from the house to the town. The...
Scotland has many hidden gems, beautiful views and magnificent walks that are less well-known than some of the more celebrated places. We took our little van up into north Angus this week. Just 35 miles from Dundee yet it felt a million miles separated us...
Ever vagabonding, we found ourselves camping in the Cairngorms last week, seven days of snow, mountains and wildlife. Fortunately it coincided with some friends of ours who also made the trip up from Yorkshire because snow had been forecast, they are wildlife photographers and wanted...
