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…
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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.…
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…
Hebrides
It took me six months to go away for a full week this year, which is quite out of character. I don’t know what happened. Being on contract.…
Wild
I went back and forth on whether I should watch Wild on a plane at all. I was tired and kind of broody and very much looking forward…
On your own
I was talking recently to someone I work with about the Trans-Siberian and how it’s the seed my solo trip is growing out of. He said, ‘I have…
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
A few months ago I wrote about various stories of solo female travel and mentioned I’d seen the film version of Robyn Davidson’s memoir Tracks. I’ve finally got…
Figuring it out. Or not.
It’s sometimes hard to feel like you’re progressing in any way when the few things that are really important to you are the ones you cannot, and will…
Klara Harden’s Made in Iceland and other stories of solo female journeys
MADE IN ICELAND from Klara Harden I don’t remember how I originally came across the link to Klara Harden‘s record of her solo trek through Iceland, so unfortunately…