went to Vietnam at Vietnam at very short notice to do a job for the World Bank about housing reco...

Australia is far-flung and until the airplane overcame the tyranny of distance Australia was terr...

An account of a trip to Thailand to test using satellite imagery to monitor long-term disaster re...

We went to Guatemala to visit David, a friend I hadn't seen for more than twenty-five years since...

We went to Venezuela in 1981 after an expedition we had been invited to join fell through. So we ...

I first met Maria Ximena when she talked about Cazuca, a barrio to the south west of Bogota and I...

The Laugavegur is one of the big walks. It is the most famous trek in Iceland and crosses other w...

We had a trip to Morocco in mind for some years, since Frances, our daughter, went there on buyin...

In the summer of 2004 we went climbing with Dimitri in the Valle Garrafano in the Apuane Alps, a ...

The Pennine Way is a tough old walk. It's about 270 miles long (435 km), was the first National t...

The Coast to Coast was devised by Alfred Wainright and first described in his guide published in ...

Offa's Dyke runs along the border between England and Wales. I walked from south to north, from C...

I visited Iran twice: in 2014 and 2015. On the first visit I went to Manjil and Bam, two cities d...

Terra Firma - very large, about which nothing is known', was how Columbus described the mainland ...

In this colorful picture book children will learn the value of friendship and helping others. Thr...

The Mare a Mare Nord traverses Corsica from sea to sea. It's nearly 100 miles long (152 km), invo...

This trip in the early summer of 1994, like other trips we made to the Alps, is a tale of two par...

The Mare e Monte Nord traverses Corsica from sea to sea. It's 76 miles long(123km), involves over...

We had tried twice before to climb Mont Blanc - with Scharlie in 1994 and with my Italian friend ...

The High Tatras form part of the Carpathian mountain range lying between Poland and Slovakia. The...

The Massif Centralis a highlandin south-central France and historically the region, the Auverne, ...

St Cuthbert's Way is a 62-mile (100 km) long-distance trail linking Melrose in the Scottish Borde...