There are numerous reasons and they have changed over time. It started as something fun to as a kid.Then it became an easy way to maintain cardio and fitness to allow me to do other sports. I say easy in the sense I just needed some trainers and to head outside. Then it became useful …
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Three Day hike in Slovenia.
A 3 day hike in the Julian Alps reaching the highest summit in Slovenia, Triglav 2863m in height. This was the aim of the trip, also to see bits of Slovenia not yet explored by myself including some lakes. The walk started with a very early wake up and packing up tents to reach the …
The simple life of a walking holiday and the lessons I learned
Rather than spending a week at home I decided to follow my own advice from many years ago and choose adventure over boredom. I walked the West Highland Way. 96 miles of walking and camping up Scotland’s west coast. The thing which made this a nice trip was the simplicity of it. Each day I …
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My Quest to visit UK National Parks
My target at the start of 2020 was quite simple – to try and visit as many if not all of the UK National Parks. There are only 15 and some are quite close together so I figured if I try and organise a trip per month somewhere it should tick them off nicely through …
Kilimanjaro the journey so far
It all started by a lucky holiday and a passing comment. November 2018. “Some of us are going to do Snowdon next Friday if you are around” Sure why not, I have the day off already. A failed paddling trip was salvaged by a trip to Wales and the start of a great adventure to …
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