walking | Reasons to go North

Posted by reasons on Jan 23, 2015 in Blog, Elsewhere, Food, Other Places | Comments Off on Extraordinary to Extra Ordinary – Saigon

Already more than twenty days into the New Year! From writing about two or three hikes a week I am shrunk to one ‘every so often’....

Posted by reasons on Dec 31, 2014 in Blog, Cumbria, Elsewhere, Nature, Other Places, Walking | Comments Off on Fourteen from 2014

Facebook and Google have both taken it upon themselves to define my year, not quite as I would have done. So I thought I’d give my own...

Posted by reasons on Dec 13, 2014 in Blog, Elsewhere, Nature, Other Places, Walking | Comments Off on Nuoc Mooc Eco Trail

My penultimate day in Phong Nha-Ke National Park felt more like the North West of England than Vietnam....

At last I have climbed a mountain in Vietnam. A real mountain not a metaphorical one. Phong Ke Bang National Park is still...

Posted by reasons on Dec 2, 2014 in Blog, Elsewhere | Comments Off on Bargains and Buffalos

Ho Chi Minh City is in the middle of a major construction project to build a city railway, most of it underground. As streets are...