For the last few summers, once rugby and school sport stopped, I mainly just enjoyed the break. This summer I decided I needed to use the time to improve. This September I’ll be starting sixth form and hoping to push for first-team rugby. I’ve become much more aware of how much work other players are […]
Standing outside Bilbao Airport waiting for the airport bus, it suddenly dawned on us that nobody else was making the decisions anymore. There wasn’t a parent checking the timetable, choosing the right stop or making sure we’d packed everything. If we got on the wrong bus, we’d be the ones dealing with it. If we […]
Trip Snapshot Dates: 25–31 May 2025 Travellers: Gordon, Nicole, Hamish (15), Euan (13), Fergus (10) Distance driven: ≈ 520 km loop Ideal ages: 8 + Total spend (May 2025): ≈ £2 950 ex-flights (see cost box) Highlights Ionian-blue swimming at Jalë ▪ Rafting Europe’s last wild river ▪ Ottoman rooftops of Berat ▪ Butrint’s Roman […]
Earlier this year we walked The Winterbourne Walk from the Ver Valley Society. It heads out from Redbourn towards Flamsted and comes back past the Herts Showground and follows part of the Chiltern Way. It’s quite a long walk – about 8 miles – and took about 4 hours. The start and end section of […]
Since we were coming to the end of the Holidays, although we weren’t going abroad we wanted to experience some days out so went to 3 cities- London, Ely, and Cambridge. This Blog is about a day spent all around London Bridge. You may recognise how close they are to each other because in some […]
About 2 weeks ago, me, my brother Euan, and some of his friends, went to Wendover Woods just outside Aylesbury for Go Ape and to visit the Woods. Wendover Woods is a big wood, managed by Forestry England, where you can explore the outdoors, walk and exercise, and Go Ape is a climbing adventure in […]
Today, we walked another trail from the Ver Valley Society. It was a shorter one and part of it is from the Ver Valley Walk 7 and the green ring. You go through lots of beautiful scenery and it is good for a couple of hours or so. It’s easy to do and isn’t hard […]
Yesterday was the hottest day of the year in the UK so we decided to go to Verulamium park to paddle. We went to the area at the edge of the main lake, beside the Fighting Cocks pub. There’s stepping stones going across at that point, like my recent walk post – Ver Valley Walk […]
As I said in a recent post Euan has been doing 3 swimming lessons a week so here’s a cycle route we’ve done recently, to use the hour while we’re waiting for him to finish. These pictures were taken near the start when we were going up the track beside Batchwood. It’s really really bumpy […]
Yesterday we visited a lavender field in Hitchin. It smelt very nice! It’s very pretty and is a good place to spend a couple of hours. It has its own ice cream, even with lavender flavoured (but I got chocolate)! TASTY! Arrangements, Costs and Getting There At the moment, because of the Pandemic, the lavender […]
