“Travel… shakes you out of the steady medium of your everyday routine and creates room for highs and lows, for intense new flavours and surprising sights, for experiences that are unpredictable and vivid and extraordinary.” After two years of living…
2021: The Year in Review on Stories My Suitcase Could Tell
Well, here we are, at the end of another pandemic year. For me, 2021 has felt both long and short, confined and freeing; better than 2020, but still far from normal. In my first blog post of the year, I…
Celebrating 10 Years of Stories My Suitcase Could Tell
A decade of writing. A whole decade! Last week marked 10 years of Stories My Suitcase Could Tell: 10 years of writing, taking photos, editing blog posts, managing social media, trying (and often failing and learning the hard way) to…
How to Experience Gaelic in the Outer Hebrides
When you think of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, you might think of beautiful beaches, Harris Tweed, or gin distilleries. But what makes visiting the Outer Hebrides truly unique is the Gaelic culture and language, giving the islands an identity which offers…
Notes on Adventure Travel, and Reconnecting with Nature
Sharp peaks, gleaming glacial lakes, trees that reach into the sky: on Instagram, all the splendour of nature is laid out before you in neat little squares, a social media patchwork of the appeal of adventure travel. Even within my…
Travel Plans and Dreams for 2021
“Once we stop wishing it were summer, winter can be a glorious season when the world takes on a sparse beauty, and even the pavements sparkle. It’s a time for reflection and recuperation, for slow replenishment, for putting your house…
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