Many of you have followed this blog for its entire existence, which will be coming up on its 10th year now. It has evolved from being a ...

When I sit down to write this post every December, it always takes me some time to collect myself and my memories of the year. When I write...

At the start of October, Martin's mother, uncle and brother visited us and the Rockies. Apart from showing them some of my favourite h...

Living in this transient mountain town, we are no longer strangers to saying goodbye to friends. In the short time we have been here, nearl...

21 years ago I sat with my 3-year-old sister in the waiting room of a hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. I would be late going to school ...

It's going to be hard for me to put into words the depth of my love for the mountains. The unexplained affinity I have for these tall...

Every week in summer had me asking the same question: “which trail should I try this weekend?”. Cue messaging all my friends to see who was...

Summer brought us a string of visitors from Australia; one of whom was my dear friend Annie. An incredibly talented photographer, I'd b...

Ordinarily, I like to steer well clear of travelling in big cities. The beeping of car horns and obnoxious blaring of stereos (what do you ...

My final trip with LUX* Resorts was at LUX* Saint Gilles, Île-de-La-Reunion. Unlike Mauritius, where the official language is English but ...