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26th January, 2026
We all need to escape the ordinary every now and then, and everyone has a few good adventures in them. For this blog post, we’ve picked a few cycling and walking holidays that are a bit more like quests than tours. From the epic mountain vistas of the Andes to the stark beauty…
26th November, 2025
Impressive Castles Thanks to a few hundred years in the Middle Ages marked by ambitious barons, despotic kings, and border wars between the English, the Scots, and the Welsh, Great Britain is full of castles. Many of these are now romantic ruins, but more than a few have been…
15th October, 2025
View from the top of Snowdon "© Hawlfraint y Goron / © Crown copyright (2025) Cymru Wales" Favourite Climbs for Spectacular Views There are few things in life more rewarding than a good view. Your legs ache, and you know you have worked hard to get there, but you can see for…
3rd September, 2025
In cricket, games between Kent and Sussex are nicknamed ‘The War of the Wealds’. But much more unites these two fierce sporting rivals than divides them. Kent and Sussex share much: the chalky hills and valleys of the North and South Downs, the towering cliffs of the English…
30th July, 2025
When I am not writing travel blogs, I live in a university town in the north-west of England, with a population of 50,000 people on the doorstep of the Lake District national park. It has no fewer than 30 pubs. This pub to person ratio is typical of many settlements in the British…