Virtual Island Bagging Britain Step-up Challenge – west Shetland
Day 8 of our virtual island bagging journey Today’s journey: high points of the islands [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Challenge – South Shetland
Day 7 of our virtual island bagging journey Today’s journey: high points of the islands [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Step-up Challenge – Orkney to Shetland
Day 6 of our virtual island bagging Britain journey Today’s journey: high points of the [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Step-up Challenge – Orkney
Day 5 of our virtual island bagging Britain journey Today’s journey: high points of the [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Challenge – Essex to Orkney
Day 4 of our virtual island bagging journey Today’s journey: heading north from Sheppey Island [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Challenge – Bristol Channel, Dorset & Hants and South East
Day 4 of our virtual island bagging journey Today’s journey: heading east from Looe Island, [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Challenge – Scilly Isles, Cornwall and Devon
Day 2 of our virtual island bagging journey In our dreams we left Saye Beach, [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Challenge – Channel Islands
Day 1 – Channel Islands In our dreams I left Portsmouth this morning after a [...]
The Virtual Island Bagging Britain Challenge 2020
Island bagging in its purist form is to climb to the high point of an [...]
Run into 2020 with our top island trail races
Islands are fast becoming the go to destination for trail runners looking for inspiring places [...]
The outdoor island events of 2020 not to be missed
Inspiration for an outdoors 2020 with some of the best events on the islands of [...]
Get Outdoors in the Outer Hebrides
Walk free-range coastal paths and mountain tops, swim and kayak off wild Atlantic beaches, be [...]
Top British islands for spotting whales, dolphins, killer whales and basking sharks
What better way to spot whales, dolphins, killer whales (orcas) and basking sharks than onboard [...]
Coast Magazine shares our ’10 Best Wild Island Adventures’
Over the moon that Islandeering is featured the July issue of Coast Magazine. Most of [...]
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Country Walking Magazine and Watery Walks
Delighted to feature in Country Walking’s July Edition which focuses on Watery Walks. Refresh yourself [...]
Countryfile: ‘Review of Islandeering’
A ‘coffee tables classic’, ‘beguiling’ and a ‘very good guidebook’. Can’t ask for more than [...]
The Guardian – Ten great walks around Britain’s tiny islands
The Guardian Travel is top of the list for travel inspiration and I was delighted [...]
Wanderlust: ‘Exploring Wales’s wild west coast’
Wanderlust asked for my recommendations on the wild islands of north Wales and to contribute [...]
Making BBC headlines with Prince Harry, Teresa May and Lady Gaga
It was the biggest surprise of my life to wake up to ‘Islandeering: the woman [...]
The Scotsman: ‘Why Scotland’s islands are the best in the world’
The Scotsman asked me to write an article on the Islandeering book. In the article [...]
The Mail – Britain’s hidden islands and what they are best for
Ahead of the book launch I was contacted by Ted Thornhill of MailOnline, via Wild [...]
The Mail on Sunday: ‘Our islands of dreams’
This was my first big interview with the press about the Islandeering book with Ashlie [...]
BBC Radio Scotland – Islandeering, dolphin festival and tuk tuk travel
What a fascinating insight into how a radio programme works. It started when Daniel at [...]
Interview with Huw Williams, Radio Orkney
I love Orkney and have made several trips to the archipelago. Needless to say I [...]
The Telegraph – 10 big adventures on Britain’s tiniest islands
Here’s an article I wrote for the Telegraph online about the Islandering book. Dolphins, secret [...]
Islandeering: the book
It’s out! Massive thanks to Wild Things Publishing for producing such a beautiful book and helping [...]
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Islandeering: turning what you’ve been told on its head
Caution: the following ignores all grown up advice Remember these words? Stay away from the [...]
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Take a ‘ball and chalk’ around an island in London
“I’ve been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh [...]
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What an extra £2 will give you on Brownsea Island
‘Quick if you look to the right you’ll see the Red Arrows’ said the head [...]
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Safety & Respect
Safety first Islands are fabulous places but sometimes can be dangerous ones too. Here are [...]
Access to islands and their foreshores
Understanding the technicalities of ownership and access to the islands of the British Isles is [...]
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Weather
The main thing to remember is that once you leave the mainland and head out [...]
Tides
Many of the islands in this blog are accessed via causeways, bridges or beaches that [...]
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Timing
Here’s a few things to consider here before you set a date to visit an [...]
Packing Items
Map, compass and GPS Phone & camera Waterproofs Sunscreen Walking & wading shoes Extra layers [...]
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Cycle around Harris in a day
Almost seventy glorious kilometres of empty roads, with over one vertical kilometre of climbing; tranquil [...]
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The weather on the islands can be very different to that on the mainland. So [...]