Ones of the pleasures of travel is seeing wonderful places - places that fill you with wonder - with your own eyes. But it's an even greater thrill when you have not been primed and prepped by guidebooks and expectations. I had never even heard of Beverley Minster until I stumbled upon it by chance. #yorkshire #blog #goniceplacesdogoodthings #neverstopexploring
The river Kaveri is one of the 5 great holy rivers of India, revered by pilgrims for centuries. From its source amongst the coffee and cardamon plantations in the cool hills of the Western Ghats, the river flows 500 miles across southern India towards the hot plains of Tamil Nadu and the Bay of Bengal.
A microadventure is an adventure that is short, simple, local, cheap – yet still fun, exciting, challenging, refreshing and rewarding.
I spent six weeks in the Canadian Arctic on an Ice Base on the frozen Arctic Ocean at 78 degrees north (at the spot often referred to in polar races as ‘The North Pole’, though in fact it was the 1996 location of the magnetic North Pole).
