by Tom Kendall | Feb 13, 2017 | Travel
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...
by peajaykay | Dec 9, 2016 | Travel
09 DEC, 2016 Northern Norway – an Arctic Adventure 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...
by peajaykay | Nov 5, 2016 | Travel
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,...
by peajaykay | Jun 19, 2016 | Travel
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...
by Tom Kendall | Mar 15, 2016 | Travel
15 MARCH, 2016 Dear Ellie – A Rough Guide to Tokyo The following is a letter I wrote to my sister, Ellie, and her husband in March 2016 when she asked if I had any tips for their upcoming visit to Japan in the April. I know Tokyo well – although the rest...
by peajaykay | Oct 27, 2015 | Travel
27 OCT, 2015 “The World’s Most Dangerous Walkway” – The Caminito Del Rey, Granada, Spain Dubbed “the world’s most dangerous walkway” due to a number of deaths in the late 1990s, the Caminito Del Rey (in Spanish, “the...
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