So what is the Rab Mountain Marathon, what do you need to know and why should you do a mountain marathon? The RMM is an orienteering, fell running event in the mountains somewhere in the UK (the location changes every…
Disclaimer: I was provided with these products for free for review purposes. I tested these products thoroughly and the opinions expressed here are my own. HJ Socks have been around for over a century, and the brand virtually screams “quintessentially…
The Mountain Equipment Kinesis jacket is both a midlayer and an outer layer and over the last couple of months has become my favourite piece of outdoor clothing. I’ve used it alpine climbing in the Alps last summer, winter climbing in…
The Trolltunga hike is billed (by basically every Google search I did) as a 22k out and back walk. Turns out it’s actually very easy to make this into a loop walk if you’re happy to camp, and don’t mind…
Soooo… the Lakes Sky Ultra. Ultra steep. Ultra technical. Ultra hard. Ultra beautiful. Ultra awesome. But let me start from the beginning. I was pretty apprehensive the week before the race. More so than before any other race I’ve done.…
So yesterday Janneke and I went van browsing at a huge used van centre near Heathrow. Exciting times! We just wanted to get a better idea of the dimensions of the vans we’re considering buying for our conversion. Currently our…
Who says you can’t have an adventure and travel in style? Last weekend we were invited to an amazing wedding up in the Peak District. Our plan was to take advantage of the location the day after the wedding. So…
Luckily I had booked last weekend in for some mountain adventures for a long time. I definitely needed to blow off some steam after the EU referendum results were announced on Friday. So I left work early on Friday afternoon,…
Like many other thousands of tourists over the last couple of years – I was desperate to visit Cuba before the already warming relations with the US turned into a burning romance. I had been watching with trepidation as communication lines…
There are thousands and thousands of islands of various sizes in the Gulf of Finland. Sea kayaking turned out to be the perfect way to go and explore some of the islands close to Helsinki.