Outdoors

The image of hot air balloons in Bristol, drifting over the Clifton Suspension Bridge, seems to have become one of those iconic postcard shots. Bristol’s …

Recently I walked around Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens London, while visiting my parents who live in London. I was struck by how much fun …

It’s become a tradition for my friend and I to spend a few days walking each year, and this time we were testing ourself in …

At 8am the heat was already rising, as my taxi dropped me at the Arikok Park Visitor Centre at the northern end of Aruba. Think …

While I’ve done my fair share of downhill ski over the years, I was always a fair-weather skier. The lure of a sunny café terrace, …

Westonbirt Arboretum is hidden in the countryside near the historic market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire, just a 40-minute drive from Bristol. Home to over …

Our first day of hiking in the Dolomites had been relatively easy, as we scaled the gentler slopes of the Rosengarten range in South Tyrol.  But Day 2 proved …

As I cycled past beautifully tended rows of vines and fruit trees heavy with plums in Austria’s Wachau Valley, I was struck by how activities …

Every year my friend Julia and I set off for a hiking holiday, a girl’s own adventure in which we test ourselves on the mountain …

With the end of the summer in sight I took a day with my daughter to go cycling in Dorset, one of England’s prettiest counties. …

Think of Kenya and you no doubt picture prides of lion prowling open grassland, giraffe grazing on acacia leaves and elephant cooling off in waterholes. …