16 JULY, 2017 Walking Britain’s oldest road: The Ridgeway National Trail Spanning 87 miles across southern-central England, the Ridgeway is an ancient path which has been used for over 5000 years by traders, soldiers, drovers, and even Viking invaders (yes!)...
16 JUNE, 2017 Pazaislis Monastery, Lithuania Nestled neatly atop ‘Peace Mountain’ on a peninsular of the Kaunas Reservoir in Lithuania sits the magnificent baroque Pazaislis Monastery. I recently had cause to be driving through the Baltic states and came across...
12 JUNE, 2017 Rakvere Castle, Estonia. The video below shows the ruins of Rakvere Castle, which lie in rural Estonia at a valuable hill-top site inhabited since the 3rd Century AD. The castle sits at the very crossroads of the Baltics, Scandinavia, and...
2 JUNE, 2017 The Blue Mountains: a micro-documentary So here is a vlog rather than a blog this time – my own take on the concept of micro-documentary. Typically 2-3 minutes long, these short, factual films are finding a life of their own due to the newer and...
17 MAY, 2017 Travelling light as a “one-man production team” – my perspective I recently had an epic trip to Australia, travelling to see family and also taking the opportunity to take plenty of photos and videos. But all my gear, complete including...
17 MARCH, 2017 A Love Adventures collaboration: Traversing the Transylvanian Alps Mountaineer and all-round adventurer David Love has just returned from completing a solo winter ascent of Moldoveanu Peak; the highest mountain in Romania. Not one to do things by...
13 FEBRUARY, 2017 The World’s only Ice Music Festival: Geilo, Norway February 2017 sees the 12th consecutive Ice Music Festival being held in Geilo, Norway. Originally conceived by eminent Norwegian percussionist Terje Isungset in 2006, this isn’t simply...
Northern Norway – an Arctic Adventure 09 DEC, 2016 The word ‘Antarctica’ has extreme connotations, and many people probably conjure visions of windswept icy plains, severe weather conditions, and isolated research posts. However, fewer have even...
05 NOVEMBER, 2016 Running the Rift Valley Marathon, Uganda. Running a marathon had always been an ambition of mine. But as with a lot of people, I sometimes doubted I would ever get around to it, or felt I wasn’t up to it – or worse: that I might fail. So,...
19 JUNE, 2016 The “Great Wall of Europe”, Ston, Croatia. Second only in length to the Great Wall of China (a stretch of which I have also walked), this defensive wall in Croatia lays claim to be the largest in Europe. Although only around 5km in hiking...
