Browsing: Hiking
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…
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…
Both Zermatt and Grindelwald promise the Swiss Alps at their most dramatic and deliver on that promise in completely different ways. Zermatt has the Matterhorn, which…
The Faroe Islands versus Iceland comparison comes up constantly in travel planning circles and the two destinations are genuinely different in ways that make the choice…
Machu Picchu is one of those places where the photographs prepare you for something extraordinary and the reality still exceeds them. I arrived at the Sun…