We're off to the Atacama and Patagonia next week, and I have no idea what on earth I am going to feed Esme, so thought it would be a good time to put together what I do know about wild camping food to refresh my memory and hopefully inspire me to be able to add a ten month baby into the mix!

If you can bring all your food with you, and it's just for adults, I find food packing for a big trip pretty easy. We basically eat oats,...

We're off on a wild camping trip to Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland tomorrow, a few days earlier than we'd planned, so I have less time to get packed than usual. Lucky I have my packing spreadsheet! I'm not actually joking - I am a total geek, and have spreadsheets for everything - very rock'n'roll, eh?

But making sure you have everything you need with you, and that you don't have too much stuff is vital to having a good adv...

Having spent most of the Spring so far in Iceland and the Outer Hebrides, I've spent a lot of time watching storms brew up on the horizon, sometimes blowing on past, other times hailing us in the face. I love it - I've always found stormy skies totally captivating. Blue skies just don't do it for me in the same way. A moody sky captures my imagination, and I just have to photograph it, even though the photos often don't look l...

Think working from home is the perfect solution to making money and spending time with baby? Think again - if you don't plan ahead a bit, and work around baby, you run in circles very fast! 

After 5 months, here's how I juggle work and baby: 

Have a (long) to-do list 

You're going to need to work around baby, and jump at any chance you get to do a bit of work, no matter how fleeting -don't waste all that time trying to...

I love the longer lighter evenings we get in Ireland when the hour changes, it's great being able to eat dinner in the garden, and takes all the pressure off finding a camp spot when we're away.

But mainly it's the variety that I love from living up north; winters dark and cold, summers when the sun barely sets. It's hard to get bored with a place when the light is constantly changing. And the changing seasons bring lots of oth...

Hopping on a plane and having a far-flung adventure is great, but if you don't want to have to wait for months between explorations, it's good to get out and about closer to home. Or, if you are reading this from elsewhere, and thinking about an Irish adventure, here's some tips from a local on how to get the most out of your trip to Belfast.

If you have a car, there are lots of great day trips an easy drive from Belfast. Witho...

With cheap flights to every far-flung location imaginable, and enticing images all over social media of exotic locations, it's all too easy to discount the beauty and wild adventures a bit closer to home. 

We were pretty busy this summer, and by the time we got round to planning a trip, I was already in my third trimester, and not too sure if airlines would even let me fly. And I really didn't fancy trying to haul all of our hi...

I love wild camping - the scenery, the freedom, the adventure.. And it's free, so you can do a lot of travelling on a tight budget. But after 8 days sleeping in a field, sometimes you really need a break (or a shower). 

Previously, we've checked into a hotel for a night when it all got a bit much - the weather takes a turn for the worse, or it's just been too long eating nothing but supernoodles and oatcakes. When we were in th...

I got to thinking recently about what home means to me. We've lived in our house for 7 years now, having bought an old wreck, and done it up ourselves slowly but surely. It's round the corner from where my grandparents used to live, and I have family just round the corner. I love our house, and do feel at home here now. But there's always some kind of chore that makes truly relaxing difficult to do at home. After an hour of si...

I've just signed up (for free) to the WordPress Blogger University.. They send you out daily email tasks to help you improve your blog writing. Number one email has just arrived with the challenge to write about why I write, which has actually been quite interesting for me to think about. Before doing this homework, I thought I was writing a blog because I wanted to have a blog, and to have a blog, you have to write it.. This...

On our latest wild camping trip in the Burren, we planned to be up on the hills for 4 nights, getting as much photography done as possible, before the bump gets too big for me to carry my share of the camping and photography gear, and before "José" shows up in December...

The weather, however, had other ideas for us. It began to rain on the first night, late enough that we were still able to cook dinner and get a quick time lap...