“A Lewis man would be homesick in heaven.” I’m not sure where I first heard it, but this phrase – about the island in the Outer Hebrides where I’m from – has stuck with me ever since. It felt particularly…
Travel Plans and Dreams for 2023
2023 is here, and with it that fresh-start, blank page feeling that comes with a new year. By the beginning of January, I’m usually ready to get back into routine after the happy blur of socialising and celebrations that is…
2022: The Year in Review on Stories My Suitcase Could Tell
From the vantage point of December 2022, it’s strange to look back and remember that at the start of this year there was still so much uncertainty around travel. While it was certainly possible to travel internationally in the first…
Travel Plans and Dreams for 2022
“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…
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…
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