Scottish Coast • Day 3 • Dowlaw to Cockburnspath
Dowlaw to CockburnspathSaturday 28 August 202117.5km • 4h 30m (including breaks)lowest: -1m • highest: 213m • total ascent 396mSwim at Belhaven Bay (on the way home) The thing…
Scottish Coast • Day 2 • Linkim Shore to Dowlaw
Linkim Shore to DowlawSaturday 10 July 202112.57km • 4h 46m (including breaks)lowest: 1m • highest: 181m • total ascent 743mSwim at Pettico Wick Amazingly, I probably slept better…
Scottish Coast • Day 1 • Berwick-upon-Tweed to Linkim Shore
Berwick-upon-Tweed to Linkim ShoreFriday 9 July 202124.49km • 9h 14m (including breaks)lowest: -2m • highest: 103m • total ascent 1876m ‘Do you have any advice for a traveller?’‘Yes.…
2020 Playlist and reading list
That ‘Everyone’s free to wear sunscreen’ thing by Baz Luhrmann (actually an essay by Mary Schmich) has a line in it about how you shouldn’t worry, because the…
Do the work
You don’t have to travel to widen your knowledge of human experience. You can read. It’s cheap (and even free if you have a library card). Fellow white…
A firm reminder
I think about China almost every night. I have for a long time, and not at all for the reasons a lot of other people are thinking about…
Mestia
Before you read on, a bit of a preface and a mild content warning. I started writing this way back on the day it actually happened. I picked…
Pig roast
At the start of last year I decided I wanted a really big food challenge. Like bigger than anything else I’d done. I think Thanksgiving for 19 people…
Hills
If you had told me 15 years ago, as I stood on the side of an English hill inside a particularly uncomfortable cloud of driving rain with a…
2019 Playlist and reading list
The majority of the music on this list isn’t even new, but then this was always more about the music that framed my particular year than the music…