The highs and lows of not researching your destinations!
How to train for a half marathon with an injury?
It’s a question I frequently ask myself, and perhaps the question should be “Should I train for a half marathon with a dodgy knee?”, but hey, I signed up for one in spite of my ongoing injury, so I thought I’d share how I’m managing that, and how I hope to get to the finish […]
10 things to do in 48 hours in Venice
If you read my last post, or if you’ve visited Venice before, you’ll know that Venice is expensive. There’s not much to do for free, and lots of opportunities to be scammed. Careful planning really helps with this city, more than most places! So we obviously made that easy for ourselves by planning a 3 […]
My 3 top tips for Venice!
The motorway from Stresa to Venice was not a fun motorway – average speeds must have been 140/150kmh and people liked to tell us to move over by riding up inches behind us at those speeds, even if we had nowhere to move to! Now, you might be thinking “you can’t drive through Venice, what […]
Welsh 3000s in review
As I write, we are currently driving home from our challenge, sore, tired and slightly broken. We had an amazing day yesterday but the full 14 peaks eluded us. I had had some knee pain in the week leading up to the challenge so had taken the week easy and just tried to make sure […]
Welsh 3000s: How Not To Prepare
(all photos from hikes in Snowdonia 3 months ago) Or should that be, “How to not prepare”? Tomorrow, I shall be undertaking a challenge known as The Welsh 3000s. The challenge is to climb every peak in Wales over 3000ft, in under 24 hours. They thankfully all lie within Snowdonia, but it does mean you […]
5 things to do in a day at Lago Maggiore
Wednesday 5th June Taking advantage of my apparent health improvement, we were up in good time to get in our first bit of hiking. We had seen in our Cicerone walking guide that there was a good hike involving a mountain just beyond our village. Actually, the hike suggested getting the cable car up to […]
Lago Maggiore: una bella serata
Tuesday 4th June We had booked to stay at a B&B just up the hill from Stresa, one of the main towns around Lago Maggiore – well located for its proximity to the beautiful Borromean Islands, Lake Orta, and also easy for us to get to and from on our journey! Of course, “up the […]
Just the two of us
Sunday 2 June 2019 We’ve skipped out the wedding as that requires too much thought and too many words for a quick blog on our travels! However it was a ridiculous, amazing wonderful and exhausting 3 days of the best time with all our friends and families. Sadly though, I somehow picked up a bug […]
The Adventure begins: A French road trip
Tuesday 28 May 2019 An early start! Up at 04h30, and left at 05h30 with all 1500l of car storage utilised, heading for folkestone. Smooth driving and a faultless crossing, we were leaving Calais at 09h30 (CET) for lunch in Nonancourt. Le Grand Cerf was lovely, Declan having a spring salad and creme brulée and […]
