A winter break in Cyprus
It’s 31st December 2021. I’m boarding a plane to Cyprus because I want to fly somewhere warm and sunny. Cyprus is to become the 72th country I will have visited. …
A birthday trip to the Canary Islands it is
It’s Friday, 3 December, a day after my birthday. I’m sitting on a train to Warsaw going to visit a close friend. I’m browsing travel websites looking for an affordable flight ticket to somewhere warm. …
Let’s go hiking in the Pirin mountains
I left for Bulgaria with a rough idea of what I wanted to do. Spend some time at the seaside, do some sightseeing and travel around the country by train. I wasn’t planning on going hiking this time. So I didn’t take hiking shoes or clothes. …
An unplanned hike over the Sentinel Pass
Round the world trip: Day 340. Another day of hiking in the Canadian mountains.
I had to see Lake Moraine again. The weather was better than the first time I had been there. I loved it. …
The Chief Peaks Trail and the Shannon Falls
After successfully hitchhiking for the first time in Canada, I went hiking again. …
Hiking Roy’s Peak in New Zealand
Round the world trip: Day 313. I went hiking again. Or tramping as they call it in New Zealand. …
Late autumn hikes in the Low Tatras
Merely a week after having hiked in the High Tatras I went to the mountains again. To the Low Tatras for a change. When I left home on Friday I wasn’t sure how the day would turn out. …
Late autumn hikes in the High Tatras
Autumn brought more restrictions to Slovakia. Travelling around the country got more difficult. …