What It Is About Being Outdoors?
Julia Bradbury recently asked the question “What is it about being outdoors ?” on her Cornwall and Devon Walking program. “It makes my heart sing” was the answer …
Ouse Valley and Ardingly Reservoir
This trek is inspired by a screensaver picture that popped up on my laptop recently, usually the many images are of far flung places around the globe but this particular one was in West Sussex …
Around Binsted Woods
This trek is a 6.5 km (4 miles) circular walk around the village of Binsted and nearby ancient woods, situated west of Arundel this parish has an immense amount of history. Parking is limited in the area, but the walk can be started at various points on the route. Sadly, this walk will look vastly…
5 Great Places to Get Children Outdoors in London
We’ve been finding it helpful to get outdoors and in nature, especially since the social distancing and lockdowns began. There are so many benefits to spending time outdoors, including helping improve one’s health and wellbeing …
A Magical, Edible Landscape
Award winning author, Rachel Lambert is a respected wild food foraging teacher and shares her knowledge of a magical, edible landscape.
Safety Tips for Camping with Kids
Camping can be great fun and fantastic activity. But, camping with your kids is a different ball game. Mere thinking of going may intimidate you. Exposing your kids to the wilderness may result in some safety hazards …
Secrets of Kingley Vale
Beneath many parts of the South Downs National Park lies a secret landscape revealing the lives of people who resided, visited and worked on the hills. This trek explores the National Nature Reserve of Kingley Vale …
Climate Change and the Great Outdoors
I have always loved the outdoors, walking and cycling from an early age. I have now completed the Munros and more. But I have noticed changes in the last 40 years …
Open Water Swimmer Gets Her Land Legs By Walking Her Way Through Lockdown
Hi, my name is Vicky and I am an open water swimmer. You may now be wondering why I am writing a blog about walking, but walking is something …
Mindfulness Photography in Arne, Dorset
One sunny afternoon last week I set out to visit the RSBP nature reserve just outside Wareham, in Dorset, hoping to see the wonders of Fungi …
Climbing my Wainwright staircase!
A number of events have conspired to force me to undertake what the rest of my family have come to consider as an eccentric, if not bizarre undertaking …
Just An Ordinary Family Of 5
Do you work 40 hours a week? Do your children go to school Mon-Fri? Do you even work some weekends? How can you manage to do all of that and still have time for the outdoors in between? We started walking as a hobby when our youngest child was 2. There had been a few…