How to Clean a Fish – and Other Adventures in Portugal Esmeralda Cabral, University of Alberta Press, 2023, Edmonton Alberta, 302 pages I like simple paintings of fish so the cover of How to Clean a Fish appealed to me. I know, that’s not a great reason to read a book, but I also love…
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…
A Canterbury Pilgrimage/An Italian Pilgrimage, by Elizabeth Robins Pennell & Joseph Pennell, The University of Alberta Press, 2015 (with a wonderful and detailed Introduction by Dave Buchanan), 149 pages Clad in a long skirt and, presumably, a corset as befit the 1880s, Elizabeth Robins Pennell set out on the front seat of a three-wheeled…
A finalist for the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction, On Foot to Canterbury: A Son’s Pilgrimage is a contemplative read that, I predict, will make you itch to depart on your own journey. Having walked what is now the world’s most popular pilgrimage: the Camino de Santiago in Spain, I was taken…
Late November, before the pandemic’s second wave, my partner Alex and I spent a few days hiking in and around Lion’s Head on the Bruce Peninsula. What a treat. I love the woods and meadows in the spring and fall when the lack of leaves allows the light to penetrate to the forest floor. I…
How to cope with your adventurous soul. My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure, Alastair Humphreys, William Collins, London, England, 258 pages, 2019 If you have the adventure travel bug, I don’t have to explain that it’s this feeling in your gut that makes everything about home seem claustrophobic. You want to rip down…
Hiking in Southern Patagonia – Facts & Info by Linda Pim * Given these crazy COVID times, you won’t be travelling to Patagonia this April. But if you read Linda Pim’s first blog post, “Hiking Patagonia,” and would like to learn more about hiking I this part of the world, read on. Patagonia is the huge area…
by Linda Pim Patagonia is the large region of southern Argentina and Chile extending from the Rio Colorado to the Strait of Magellan and from the Andes to the Atlantic coast. The name derives from the Spanish word “patagon” (large, clumsy foot) used by 16th century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan to describe the Indigenous people, who…
I entitled this post “Views, Ruins and Good Friends” since that is what you get on this three-hour hike. It’s one of my favourites in and around Patzcuaro, Mexico where I spend part of my winters. If you are lucky, you may get a burro too. All of the photos I’m using in this post…
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