Seven ways to enjoy Central Taiwan
*The following post was written for the Taiwan Tourism Bureau. Some readers aren’t too fond of sponsored trips- if you’re one of them, go here to read a personal account of my recent (self-paid) walk in...
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A short walk in the Alpujarras: Pórtugos to Bérchules
I looked up and saw an empty path in front of me. The trees that had stood nearby were no longer there- all I could see now were their silhouettes, covered in a thin...
A Short Walk in the Alpujarras: Capileira to Portugos
“Are we lost?” “I’m not sure. Hang on”. I walked a little farther and climbed up a slope, turned a short corner and went past a large tree with roots that clung to the...
Walking across New Zealand- the Coast to Coast Walkway
How often can you say you’ve walked across a country, from one coast to the other, in one day? Not too often I suspect, but in New Zealand, you can. You can do this...
Two hours to 2016
I never thought I’d manage to squeeze this piece in before the end of 2015 but hey, here I am. These past few days have been the busiest I’ve ever been the entire year....
Notes on the Travel Bloggers Meetup 2015
It was only when we were asked to take our seats at the makeshift stage at Calavera that I began asking what I had gotten myself into. That was when it occurred to me:...
Tips for the Cleveland Way
Last September, I walked part of the Cleveland Way, a 110-mile (177km) walk that runs between the market town of Helmsley on the edge of the North York Moors and Filey Brigg, which lies...
Somewhere on the Cleveland Way
The sun was right above me; it was four in the afternoon. I wasn’t particularly late- sunset is around 7.30 this time of year in England- but when I set out that morning, I imagined that...
France, early morning
In the French village of Bossey, not far from the Swiss border, the days pass by pretty slowly. So slowly that on a walk one morning, a slug I had chanced upon on a...
Walking in England
I remember climbing high stone steps. I remember a large building and grey stone bricks with moss in the grooves and a kind old man asking if everything was all right when I...
