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How to Spend A Long Weekend in Stavanger

How to Spend A Long Weekend in Stavanger

When planning our weekend mini break, there were a couple of things we had on our wish list; hiking good food within 2 hours flying time of London on the UK travel corridor list (crucial!) Norway, and Stavanger in particular ticked all of these boxes for us, and was...

How to See Preikestolen Without the Crowds: Sunrise Hike Pulpit Rock

When I first started researching a trip to Stavanger, Norway, Preikestolen (also known as Pulpit Rock) came up in almost every recommendation. It's one of the most well known hikes in the area. Made even more popular after Tom Cruise scaled it during 'Fallen' (there...

Active Adventure: Top 5 UK Hiking Trips

Top 5 UK Hiking Trips My friends and I were chatting yesterday about how one of the things we have found tough was that the inability to plan ANYTHING. No weekend mini breaks, no summer holidays and no international travel. Obviously there's a really good reason for...

The Best Hike in Hawaii… Is it worth hiking the Stairway to Heaven?

Short answer: yes (as long as you're not afraid of heights). Read on for the longer answer. My friend Danielle had been talking about the Stairway to Heaven hike for a while, saying that it was one of her favourite hikes in the world. After looking up photos on...

Why Now is the Time To Start Active Commuting

Why Now is the Time To Start Active Commuting

How do you get to work? To Uni? To pick up your kids or wherever you travel on a daily basis? Perhaps you hop on a tube, take a daily train or jump in the car? Or maybe you live close enough to walk, cycle or run? I'm just starting on training for another goal (more...

My Favourite Hiking Gear

My Favourite Hiking Gear

I've been fortunate enough to go hiking quite a bit this Summer, certainly more than I usually do, and I've loved it. One of my favourite hikes was to Murphy's Point in Canyonlands, it was an easy 3.6 mile hike but we had it completely to ourselves! After arriving in...

Active Adventure: Top 5 UK Hiking Trips

Top 5 UK Hiking Trips My friends and I were chatting yesterday about how one of the things we have found tough was that the inability to plan ANYTHING. No weekend mini breaks, no summer holidays and no international travel. Obviously there's a really good reason for...

Waikiki Oahu Active Travel Guide

This was my second trip to Hawaii, a place I didn't think I'd come back to so soon after my honeymoon in 2017, but couldn't pass up another opportunity to visit. I was on Oahu with New Balance, shooting their Spring/Summer catalogue - so excited to see it but can't...

The Best Hike in Hawaii… Is it worth hiking the Stairway to Heaven?

Short answer: yes (as long as you're not afraid of heights). Read on for the longer answer. My friend Danielle had been talking about the Stairway to Heaven hike for a while, saying that it was one of her favourite hikes in the world. After looking up photos on...