Outdoors

The South Downs Way offers white chalk cliffs at one end and leafy lanes at the other. The long distance trail meanders through Southern England, …

Cycling around the Channel Island of Sark in June I spotted a number of Royals dressed up as scarecrows. They were part of the Scarecrow …

April and May are the Bluebell months in England but the April showers were also plentiful this year. For several weekends I’d been watching the …

In this travel podcast (No 21 in my podcast series) I’m walking the Tour de Mont Blanc with my friend Julia. The TMB, as it’s …

The Gower peninsula is the part of South Wales that looks like the lower jaw of the Welsh wolf’s head on the map. It was …

We visited Hidcote Manor Gardens in aurtumn, just as August turned to September. On the weekend we visited, warm sunshine was tempered by a slight …

We awoke at Refuge Col de Balme to bright sunshine and blue skies, excited to start Day 5 of our hike on the Tour de …

We started Day 4 on the Tour de Mont Blanc (and the first walk of this year) at the spot where we had come down …

The mist was swirling in as we reached Refuge Col de Balme, our first stop on the Tour de Mont Blanc trail. Clouds were blowing …

I might describe the Abbey House Gardens in Malmesbury as a gorgeous Cotswold garden that typifies the English country style, but the name doesn’t always …

It was a sunny spring day when we visited the Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg, full of floral displays and views of the Hohensalzburg fortress. If …