Morocco 2019: Marrakech, Sahara, and Essaouira

We visited Morocco in Spring 2019 for much the same reason a lot of people are going at the moment: it’s the nearest most different place you can get to on a budget flight from the UK, it looks really interesting (totally different culture! You can go to the desert!), and it looks really great too. […]

Mount Snowdon 2018

We climbed Mount Snowdon on Saturday! I’d visited Snowdonia and started some of the main track when I was about 12 years old, but I’d never made it to the summit. We took two fairly niche and challenging routes, one which took us up high and then along a ridge to the summit, and another […]

New Zealand birdlife

One of the highlights from our trip to New Zealand was the birdlife. Over the course of our three weeks I became fascinated with New Zealand’s birds! We saw roughly half of New Zealand’s native birds, of which there are a lot. As Wikipedia so eloquently explains, New Zealand being very far from anywhere created unique […]

Latvia 2017

Our visit to Latvia was a weekend break, and the first time we’d done an international weekend break. We had a pretty hectic schedule, driving to Luton airport on the Friday afternoon, arriving fairly late on the Friday evening, and then enjoying all of Saturday and Sunday, and most of Monday. We arrived back at […]