"Solvitur ambulando" - it is solved by walking - or so the saying goes. A phrase and concept often attributed to Saint Augustine, it has arisen again and again in everything from the works of Henry David Thoreau, to Louis Carroll's "What The Tortoise Said To Achilles", to becoming the adopted slogan of The Wander Society (a [...]
Sing me a song of a lass that is gone, Say, could that lass be I? Merry of soul she sailed on a day Over the sea to Skye. Billow and breeze, islands and seas, Mountains of rain and sun, All that was good, all that was fair, All that was me is gone. Sing [...]
Travelling, taking in the beauty of the world, is both one of my favourite things to do and one of my greatest sources of anxiety. I don't know why exactly travelling fills me with such worry alongside the excitement, but it does. Nevertheless, I strive not to allow those anxieties to prevent me from travelling [...]
There's something exciting coming in the world of book subscription boxes... something that takes the magic of travelling by book one step further, by bringing a little bit of those bookish places straight to your favourite reading spot. Fernweh Fiction is a brand new subscription box from @thetravellingreader. Inspired by trips around England, and using the [...]
You may recall me mentioning that Mr H and I were off to Amsterdam for a few days following the whole travel bottle debacle. Hard to believe that was over a week ago now (we're missing the lovely Lucy lots!) but what a fabulous time we had! I could quite easily bore enthral you with [...]
So this is a very silly whining-about-nothing post. I've just encountered one of those first world problems, you know the type that really doesn't matter but feels like it has been sent to try you. Yep. One of those. So tomorrow morning me and Mr H are flying out to Amsterdam to visit his utterly [...]
