When I started learning to skate last summer my aim was to get good enough to go on a street skate in Paris. I finally had the opportunity two weeks ago when I hooked up with Natalie and joined a tour organised by Skate-A-Round, a Dutch company that does skating and cycling tours all over [...]

I am putting in place the final arrangements for my trip to the Arctic. We depart Oslo on 28 July and I get back to Oslo on 8 August – in between there will be sea kayaking, riding on zodiac boats and hopefully spotting lots of fabulous wildlife – polar bears (from a safe distance!), [...]

I spent last weekend in Birmingham for the BookCrossing UK Unconvention (as opposed to the official Convention in North America). I went the first year, in 2004, but missed last year because of Live 8. I was tossing up between the two when I thought I’d just be watching Live 8 in a pub or [...]