Reasons to go North

The last time I crossed the Balkans, the map wore different colours. Travelling through, what was then Yugoslavia, to Greece in the...

A topic I have debated at length before. Way back when in 2013! Yes, I have been scribbling and publishing for that long. So...

There was more to drive than walk from my home in S Lakes, to our eventual camp. But the day was hot, so the drive at the end ...

I was up Helvellyn last week. A glorious blue sky day in what I am sure is going to be remembered as the ‘summer of 2018’. So...

It has been so glorious the past few weeks. Weather almost unprecedented in Cumbria, Scotland and Yorkshire for that matter. ...

I am, again, going to be ‘hurrying’ over the Yorkshire Three Peaks. Soon. Tomorrow! But this walk was merely a wander at leisure...