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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: Lake District

Wild camping in the Lake District

Whenever I talk to people about backpacking and wild camping in England their response is invariably “oh, so you like going to the Lakes?”, to which I look sheepish and admit I have never been. I have a couple of friends who have bought a house in Kendal who go on about it being lovely, a good friend at work…