It will surprise some people that Spain has wonderful village-to-village hikes that do NOT lead to Santiago de Compostela, and that are not caminos! The 450km Andalusian Coast to Coast Walk is one of them. From mid-April to mid-May this year (2025), my sister Dori and I tackled the Andalucian Coast to Coast…
FKT – Chasing the Smokies Moon within a lunar cycle
The Spout Path is the East Coast Trail’s most iconic hike. The Spout, a fresh water geyser, is what draws most people to this trail, and it’s a pretty neat phenomenon. The Spout, however, is only one of the features of the Spout Path that has made it one of my all-time-favourite hikes. I warn…
Walking Through Wayne Johnston’s backyard I left you a few days ago admiring the humpback whale that came uncomfortably close to our small boat. A bit scary, but magic too. Next up was the Flamber Head Path where we saw a lone seal, a seriously phallic mushroom, a grumpy man’s profile and ate our lunch…
In my last post, I was still in St. John’s and only about one-third of the way along the East Coast Trail. I’ve now completed my hike and have some stories to tell and photos to present. So let’s go. Hiking solo, I set out on another glorious day on the 15km Cape Spear…
Hiking by the sea. You gotta love it. This photo was taken on my second East Coast Trail hike of 2024. (I walked a few sections further south about 15 years ago.) My first hike was from Pouch Cove, where I stayed, to Cape St. Francis at the north tip of the Avalon Peninsula, and…
Seeing Double? If you have seen these photos and stories before, it is probably true. I posted them in my newsletter as I was hiking in Europe. I’ve now posted them in my blog so they are available as an archive. My apologies for the repeat, but if you wanted to look through the images…
Review by Nicola Ross Torbjorn Ekelund, A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys Into Nature, (2014 in Norwegian/2021 in English), Greystone Books Ltd., Hardcover, 255 pages, $32.95 and Torbjorn Ekelund, The Boy and the Mountain: A Father, His Son, and a Journey of Discovery (2017 in Norwegian/2023 in English), Greystone Books Ltd., Hardcover, 135…
Waypoints: My Scottish Journey, Sam Heughan, 2022, Octopus Publishing Group Ltd., London, UK, 270 pages I was drawn to this book by the cover shot of the author – a tall, lanky, handsome man seated by a campfire, notebook in hand. A map at his feet. Perfect hair. A glass of whisky held casually. Spotless…
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland Nan Shepherd, Canongate Canons, 2014, 160 pages. (With a foreword by John Macfarlane and an afterword by Jeanette Winterson) John Ruskin, the famous 20th century, British art critic, writer and philosopher, is known to have told his art students, “Now remember, gentlemen, that…
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