2 Sisters Nepal Cooking School – Kathmandu
A practical Kathmandu cooking class covering markets, traditional dishes, teaching style, setting, and social impact from a traveller’s perspective.
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Hiking Iceland – In the Shadow of Vatnajökull – Day 4
On the last day of the In the Shadow of Vatnajökull trek with Icelandic Mountain Guides, we awoke to a cloudy morning with low fog hanging over the tops of the mountains. Quite a contrast to the brilliant finish to yesterday! We made our final lunches out on the deck before heading across the river (thankfully…
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Hiking Iceland – In the Shadow of Vatnajökull – Day 3
Sunrise at Egilssel Hut. Yes, once again I was up at about 2:30am to see this. Totally worth it! 🙂 After another relaxed 8am breakfast, we retraced our steps from the day before around the lake and started to ascend towards a higher plateau. There were fantastic views back down over the lake and hut, despite…
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Hiking Iceland – In the Shadow of Vatnajökull – Day 2
It is always a good idea to get up for sunrise … even when it occurs at 3am! It is also a good idea to go back to bed afterwards, and when we finally crawled out for our 8am breakfast, we were greeted with bright blue skies and loads of sunshine. We helped ourselves to…
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Hiking Iceland – In the Shadow of Vatnajökull – Day 1
My trip to East Iceland started out a little too early in the morning and I’m thankful for 2 things: the fact that it never gets dark here in the summer makes it easier to drag oneself out of bed at 5:30am I’m staying very close to Reykjavik domestic airport and didn’t have to get…
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Greenland – Sisimiut Sea Safari
I was on my third cup of tea over breakfast at the Hotel Sisimiut when Jan from Sisimiut Private Boat Safari called. Yes, it was unbelievably foggy outside, but some of the calmest waters occur after a heavy fog lifts he told me – so could I be ready in 15 minutes? Absolutely! We’d been…
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Hiking Greenland – Abandoned Settlement of Assaqutaq
When you start researching things to do around Sisimiut you very quickly come across excursions to Assaqutaq – an abandoned settlement about 10km away. The Hotel Sisimiut offers a boat tour to and from the settlement, but what I really wanted to do was take a boat out and then hike back. I contacted Jan from Sisimiut…
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Reykjavik Food Lovers Tour – Icelandic Traditional Food
After 2 years of this blog, my friends joke that if I’m not posting about hikes or treks I’ve done, I’m posting about food. So they won’t be surprised that one of the very first things I did when planning my trip to Iceland was look up foodie tours 🙂 Specifically, I was looking for…
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Hiking Greenland – Russell Glacier
It was quite difficult to tell how many days I should allocate to exploring the area around Kangerlussuaq before starting the Arctic Circle Trail trek. There seemed to be a fair few options for things to do – the Russell Glacier, visiting the Greenland Ice Sheet at Point 660, Sugarloaf Mountain, Garnet Rock, a wildlife…
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Icelandic Mythical Walk – Reykjavik Folklore tour
I’ve always loved stories and am an avid reader of fantasy novels. So of course the Icelandic Mythical Walk with its focus on Icelandic folk tales, piqued my interest – particularly after hearing about Icelandic trolls during the In the Shadow of Vatnajökull trek, and the Hidden Folk (aka Elves) on the Laugavegur & Fimmvörðuháls trek with Icelandic…
