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Reykjavik-city-and-Hallgrims-church Iceland- photo Zoe Dawes
Blog trip, Culture, Europe, Top Tips, Walking

Walking round Reykjavik – Europe’s most northern capital

May 13, 2013 by Zoe Dawes 15 Comments
If you’ve been to Iceland you’ll understand the singer Björk.  Born and raised in Reykjavik, she epitomises this country’s quirky, eclectic energy.  Visitors on holiday can get a brief glimpse of Iceland’s natural attractions and history by doing The Golden Circle, including Gulfoss (Golden Waterfall), the geothermal field of Haukadalur...
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Adventure, Europe, Holiday, Walking

Follow the Camino de Santiago … the Heming-Way

April 17, 2013 by Guest Author 12 Comments
Ernest Hemingway wrote, “Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters” In the same spirit, I believe that as life goes by so fast there are only a few moments that you really live to the max. Walking the Camino de Santiago, as opposed to bullfighting which...
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Machu Picchu Peru
Adventure, South America, Walking

The breathtaking Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru

June 27, 2012 by Guest Author 6 Comments
The Inca Trail in Peru is one of the world’s most spectacular walks. In this World Travel Blogger series, share one hiker’s experience to the heady heights of Machu Picchu and back … My breath was shallow in my chest.  The air up here in the Andes was thin, but...
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Huffing & puffing up Latterbarrow

May 11, 2012 by Zoe Dawes 16 Comments
Almost as soon as we set off I knew I was a lot less fit than I had foolishly imagined myself to be. Working in and around the Cumbrian fells of the Lake District I seem to be under some sort of delusion that simply looking at those hills could make me...
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Pines at Friar's Crag Derwentwater - photo Zoe Dawes
Cumbria, Outdoors, Walking

Friar’s Crag: A perfect Lake District view

December 13, 2011 by Zoe Dawes 19 Comments
“The first thing which I remember as an event in life was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friar’s Crag on Derwentwater.”  Victorian art critic and philanthropist John Ruskin described this view as one of the three most beautiful in Europe.  Friar’s Crag is a one of the most...
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Wordsworth Coffin Walk - Grasmere to Rydal with The Quirky Traveller
Culture, Cumbria, Video, Walking

Wandering in Wordsworth’s footsteps – Grasmere to Rydal

April 11, 2011 by Zoe Dawes 14 Comments
“I wandered lonely as a shroud …”. I know, not right, but I’d just told a friend we were filming along the ancient Coffin Road from Grasmere to Rydal and he came out with it… In olden times, the Coffin Route was used by locals carrying the dead from Rydal...
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Liverpool Slavery History Tour

February 11, 2011 by Zoe Dawes 6 Comments
Liverpool Slavery Tour “Use your eyes, look up and all around you – there are traces of the city’s history all around you.”  These were the words of our guide on the Liverpool Slavery History Tour, a fascinating snapshot of a bygone era that some might rather forget … There are so very many things...
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