A short walk in the Alpujarras: Pórtugos to Bérchules
I looked up and saw an empty path in front of me. The trees that had stood nearby were no longer there- all I could see now were their silhouettes, covered in a thin...
Category: walks and hikes
A Short Walk in the Alpujarras: Capileira to Portugos
“Are we lost?” “I’m not sure. Hang on”. I walked a little farther and climbed up a slope, turned a short corner and went past a large tree with roots that clung to the...
Walking across New Zealand- the Coast to Coast Walkway
How often can you say you’ve walked across a country, from one coast to the other, in one day? Not too often I suspect, but in New Zealand, you can. You can do this...
Tips for the Cleveland Way
Last September, I walked part of the Cleveland Way, a 110-mile (177km) walk that runs between the market town of Helmsley on the edge of the North York Moors and Filey Brigg, which lies...
Somewhere on the Cleveland Way
The sun was right above me; it was four in the afternoon. I wasn’t particularly late- sunset is around 7.30 this time of year in England- but when I set out that morning, I imagined that...
France, early morning
In the French village of Bossey, not far from the Swiss border, the days pass by pretty slowly. So slowly that on a walk one morning, a slug I had chanced upon on a...
A day on the Routeburn Track
I get a kick every time I tell people how the Routeburn Track got its name. The Routeburn Track- one of New Zealand’s nine Great Walks- started out as a trail in the 1860s...
