“Never miss a good opportunity to shut up….. and listen.” Hiking the Giants Cup Trail in the Drakensberg The Giants cup trail is a 60km trail through the Drakensberg mountains in South Africa and has been on my wish list since the early days of planning the “change of pace” moments in this trip. Most people […]

The plan for the summer holiday was simple, a long weekend cycling then continue the Pieterpad from the previous year. After 4 days of cycling in the rain and the weather forecast not offering much hope of improvement we chose to do a last minute walking trip in Portugal. We booked an organised independent walking […]

Pieterpad 2007, 2010 In September 2007 we finally made a start with the pieterpad. We chose to do it south to north so that the sun would be in a backs and we wanted to do the “Dutch mountains” first and move onto the flatter parts later. The Pieterpad: The pieterpad is probably the most […]

Munro magic Munros are the highest 282 mountains in Scotland (above 3000ft/ 915m). In 2005 I once again took the opportunity to climb about 5 of them. I’ve now done about 12, only 270 to go!!! For more info about munroing see http://www.munromagic.com/ 2004 The Great Glen way In 2004 I walked The Great Glen […]