A Look Back On 2022

Not a huge number of trips this year, but then I did have a huge trip in the summer. One thing I have discovered about myself in recent years though, is that I no longer mind if a trip involves wild camping, sites, bothies/huts or hostels. It seems I have grown much more concerned about …

Lightning Safety

Since being struck by lightning on my ear, via a corded phone back in the 1970s, I have had a bit of a morbid interest in lightning. I also have a very healthy respect (fear?) of it and despite researching all the things you should and shouldn't do, Geoff and I have spent quite a …

🐾Abowt Time Too!🐾

🐾Pebbs here! 🙋‍♀️ its soooo long since mum took me campin monfs and monfs i demanded a nite owt. She owes me lots 😠 so on fursday we walked 5 miles across the moors to Chinley its a nice littel site me and Islay have been before and they let mum take me in the …

Gear Mistakes I Made On My Baltic To Atlantic Trip

I can't think of many things I wasn't happy with on this trip, but, with hindsight, there were a couple of important things I would change. RUCKSACK I currently own two backpacking sacks, a 65 litre and a 70+ litre. Given that the 65l one is slightly lighter than the other, that's the one I …

Baltic to Atlantic, Aug-Sep 2022

I always knew this would be a different kind of backpacking trip. All our previous trips to Sweden, like the Kungsleden and Sarek, had been solely in the mountains, and the St Olavsleden Pilgrim's Trail isn't. This is why I decided right in the beginning that I wasn't going to stay on the Pilgrim's Trail …