Going to Australia had been on my bucket list for a long, long time after spending over a decade listening to Martin and his old uni friends talk about their gap year in this magical place called “Manly” and it seemed important to me to experience this place first hand so I could see what […]
“There is no fun without risk” That’s the exact words that came from a fellow hiker on his descent from Swinica summit. We were just coming up to the section where the via ferrata chains began and this guy came flying down the steep slope with a big smile on his face and came to […]
If you go down to the woods today… you’re sure of a big surprise! Never has a truer word been spoken on this occasion. The plan: Get up and out for 4am, walk to Morskie Oko (not bus – Walk) go see the beautiful lake, climb up to Czarny Staw pod Rysami Lake, clamber back […]
Truth be told I had been stressing and worrying about our trip to Zakopane. After Martin told me we would be mountaineering and taking on the High Tatra Mountains I got straight onto google to read up about it… not such a great idea to be honest. Image after image showed dizzying views and terrifying […]
It’s been a very long time since my body clock had been this much out of sync, we left Newcastle (UK) at 5.30am, drove up to Edinburgh and then flew to New York, all in all, we were awake for over 26 hours. I haven’t done that kind of thing in a long time! But […]
I’m not sure I can relate to “paper/blog” everything we did on our trip to New York. Even going through all our photos, all 1600 of them (… hey I like to take photos) it feels like it was someone else that was there. Never would I have imagined myself to be walking the streets […]