I spent August writing an eighteen-page proposal asking my school to fund a forest. Here’s why — and the actual documents, if you want to try it at yours.
Three very different shows in one day at the Edinburgh Fringe and International Festival – and why the one I least expected to enjoy surprised me.
I joined a gym this summer to get bigger, stronger and fitter for rugby. Here’s why I chose Westminster Lodge, how I train and what I’ve learned so far.
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 […]
We went for the beaches and came back talking about the mountains. Seven days and 520 km round Albania — the full route, the story of each stop, and what it all cost.
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 […]
