The night before our flight to Sydney we checked our documentation through one last time. Then we rechecked it against the various Australian government and airline websites. Then we checked […]
Tag: Hiking
Greater London
We’d booked our tickets to see Windsor Castle way back when we were still in Portugal: with the holiday season in full swing, coupled with reduced capacity as a result […]
Killarney National Park
Killarney National Park and the surrounding Ring of Kerry – a scenic 179 kilometer/111 mile drive around the edge of the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry – showcase some of […]
County Clare and Galway
The kids were in heaven staying on a cattle farm near the sleepy village of Kilfenora in central County Clare for a few days: 50 head of cattle to feed […]
County Donegal
We had the radio on as we were driving from Belfast to the village of Glenties in County Donegal. Max was tuned in and asked, “What language are they speaking […]
The Lake District
I had no idea England was home to mountain ranges, let alone the striking peaks encompassed by northern England’s Lake District National Park. The Lake District is the most visited […]
Llanychaer and Southern Wales
It was a bit of a slog from Cornwall in southwestern England around the Bristol Channel and across southern Wales from east to west. The drive had us all longing […]
Cornwall
The South West Coast Path is England’s longest marked hiking trail and is also a National Trail. It stretches for 630 miles/1015 kilometers, running from Minehead in Somerset, along the […]
The Cotswolds
Rolling hills covered with a patchwork of hedge-fenced, sheep-filled paddocks stretching between quaint English villages with names like Dorsington and Chipping Campden, the Cotswolds was quintessential English countryside. Our arrival […]
Parque Nacional de Sierra Nevada
From our base in Nerja on Costa del Sol we made a day trip inland through the Sierra Nevada to Granda for some hiking in Parque Nacional de Sierra Nevada. […]
San Sebastián
It was quite the trip down memory lane for the kids and me as we crossed the border into Spain from the train station in Hendaye in France: we’d walked […]
Bourgogne and Chalon-sur-Saône
A trip to Burgundy has always been on my bucket list, and while our timing wasn’t perfect – it was a later vintage than usual so all of the small […]