We'd hired the house and booked the flights for a winter wonderland trip to Finland when I first found out I was pregnant, with the promise of sitting in our cozy forest cottage, enjoying the fire, the view, and some hearty food. But true to form, once we got there, we were hiring cross country ski equipment and buying snow shoe...

We were meant to be going to Greenland with a short stop over in Iceland on the way, but our flights got cancelled a week before we were due to go. We even had our bags packed complete with all the food we'd need for the 10 day hike - meticulously calculated to maximise calories, and minimise weight. Quick change of plan, we dec...

I love the long summer evenings in Ireland, the days seem to have so much possibility - even if you don't manage to get up too early, you can still fit a mountain in! I had a theory that if only it didn't get dark at all, we could have the longest holiday, really maximise those days off work. So, where better to go than northern...

I've no idea where the notion to go on a cross country skiing, wild camping adventure came from, but it was one of those ideas that wouldn't go away once it had creeped in.

We read up a bit on the theory of it before we went, so we knew we'd need to use wax, that we'd be able to use a pulk to drag  our gear along behind us, a bit...

We'd never done a trekking holiday before, and we'd really only got into the mountains, but with my 30th birthday coming up at the end of the year, we booked ourselves flights to Nepal, and figured we'd a year to get fit and organised.

I was pretty nervous before going - I'd read the full day-to-day breakdown of the walk we plann...

We headed off to Morocco with no plans other than the first few nights' accommodation booked in a riad in Marrakesh. Certainly no plans for hiking in the Atlas mountains. And definitely no plans for getting lost there!

Marrakesh was delightfully and heavingly full of life, especially Djemaa El-Fna Square at night. We'd inadv...