Browsing: Adventure
Colorado got into my blood on a backpacking trip I took the summer after finishing university, when I spent three weeks in the San Juan Mountains…
Bali has become one of those destinations that everyone visits and very few people actually see. The Instagram version, Seminyak and Canggu with their rooftop pools…
Norway has more fjords than any map can properly show. The country’s western coastline is so deeply indented that if you straightened it out it would…
The Lofoten Islands sit above the Arctic Circle in a chain of jagged peaks rising directly from the Norwegian Sea. The mountains here do not build…
I have chased the northern lights three times. The first two times I saw nothing, or next to nothing, a faint green smear on the horizon…
Norway without a car sounds like a significant disadvantage. The country is long and its most famous landscapes are spread across hundreds of kilometres of fjord…
The Scottish Highlands are one of the last genuinely wild places in Europe. The numbers bear this out: the entire Highlands contain fewer people per square…
Switzerland is expensive. There is no point pretending otherwise. A coffee in Zurich costs more than lunch in Lisbon. A night in a mid-range hotel in…
Switzerland has hiking for everyone, which sounds like marketing language but is genuinely true. The trail network is marked at five difficulty levels and the infrastructure…
The Swiss rail network is one of the engineering achievements of the modern world, and I do not mean that in a boring infrastructure kind of…