The Glacier Express and Bernina Express routes are amongst the world’s great railway journeys as well as bucket-list items ticked off by many thousands of people every year. I’ve written a piece to tell you why you shouldn’t take those trains.
I spent a few days in the west country with a brief stopover in Worcestershire, using the “Freedom of the Severn and Solent” rail rover… but why don’t rail companies promote their rover tickets?
Every country has a north, and you don’t get much more north within the United Kingdom than Westray in the Orkney Islands. I took a hike to Noup Head to explore the rugged beauty of Westray’s north-west coast.
A “big day out” in the Coniston Fells in July 2021, visiting five Wainwright summits, the Royal Canadian Air Force memorial on Great Carrs, and the uncannily-shaped “Matterhorn Rock” near the summit of Grey Friar.