We love walking, especially multi-day hikes so we thought we’d better give one of the most famous walks in Europe a crack and do a section of the Camino de Santiago. We walked 115kms of the Frances way from Sarria to Santiago de Compostella over 5 days and nights. Our days on the Camino had a nice easy rhythm, waking each day around 7am, doing our stretches, and heading off […]
Our most challenging and enlightening adventure to date must be our week in Iceland, which we visited in late March 2024. The ‘Around Iceland’ visitors guide has a welcome note from Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir, the Minister of Culture and Business Affairs which sums up the country nicely: “every day there is an adventure waiting to happen in Iceland. With its abundance of mountains, glaciers, rivers, lakes, caves and otherwise rough […]
We visited Bergen (pic. 1) and Oslo (pic 2) in Spring as the sun was starting to thaw the snow on the ground and the sky (in Bergen at least) was a deep cobalt blue. The capital city and the second largest city in Norway were full of life as it was just before the Easter break and there was a holiday atmosphere. Quick summary of Bergen and Oslo: Norway’s […]