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About the Author

From bicycle touring to backpacking, watercolour painting to clay modelling, the exploration journal captures my journey through many different interests and travel adventures.

I love to find those out of the way places that whisk you away from the concerns of everyday life. Whether this is by wading through an overgrown river or trying new paint techniques is up to you!

Tag: Dorset

Badbury Beech Avenue, Dorset

The last three days have been foggy in Bournemouth, many of us are starting to forget what the sun feels like. The first foggy day was spent revising, the second doing the exam, but today was for the first long ride of 2017! The first bit of the ride was to Wimborne Minster. I was slowly going up a hill…

Horton Tower

On one of my cycle rides around Dorset during my university years I stumbled upon a most unusual thing. As I peddled along one of the Dorset lanes I spotted a tall tower atop one of the nearby hills. I cycled in a large loop around it, trying to figure out how to get closer. At one point stopping to…

Cycling from Bournemouth to Durdle Door

My entire week had been building up to this day, I had been specially avoided anything overly strenuous in preparation for a 70 mile cycle to Durdle Door with a friend from university. If you had told me two months ago that I would even be thinking about doing 70 miles in one go I would have frowned and said…