Walks & Hikes
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Top 5 Essentials for Hill Walking
The list of items you could, should or would like to take hill walking can go on and on and on. But all hill walkers and mountaineers will have their own “must haves”…
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City Escape: Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh
I love cities. The hustle-and-bustle, the crowds, the street performers and ordering Chinese food to your house at 3am. But they can get quite overwhelming, especially for a country bumpkin like me. As…
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Tentsmuir Forest and Kinshaldy Beach
Thought I’d give my tales from Down Under a bit of a break this week, instead having a wee throwback post to Tentsmuir Forest and Kinshaldy Beach. At the North East of Fife,…
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The Birks of Aberfeldy
I have always had this strange fascination with water. Growing up on the River Tay, I’ve always been used to the views and sunsets over the river. Water, whether it be large lochs,…
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Walk along the Fife Coastal Path
Earlier in the year, as part of the training for my Everest Base Camp charity trek (yep, another training walk, but they were needed!), I took my wonderful wee man Jimmy the Labrador…
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Tackling Schiehallion
Well I haven’t been up to much recently, mainly because I’m saving for… AUSTRALIA…which is happening in December! So instead I thought I’d do a throwback blog post to my walk up Schiehallion…
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Everest Base Camp 2015
Trekking to Everest Base Camp, while raising funds for the British Heart Foundation was the most incredible, hard-going, rewarding trip I have ever done. It was also ultimately life-changing for me, in so…