A long but very smooth day of travel has seen us travel from The Cottage to Dalaman in Turkey. The drive to Manchester was easy enough and from arriving at the car park, to getting bags checked and through security took a mere ten minutes! Possibly an airport speed record! It left plenty of time Read more

Slightly off topic for mountain news, but the big news from The Cottage is that Clare has now published her latest book ‘Wellbeing Ambassadors’ and we’ve been celebrating the fact that it’s Number 1 in the Amazon Charts in three different categories! It’s available in paperback or on Kindle and until tomorrow afternoon, you can Read more

Between the passing weather fronts, there have been some real moments of calm and tranquility. Luckily for me one coincided with a canoeing day on Sunday. With barely a breath of wind and a pause in the drizzle, we had a magical Sunday exploring around the lake. Mom arrived in Wales that same afternoon, for Read more

I’ve had a great couple of days of early season Welsh rock climbing work this week, teaching a Mountain Training ‘Rock Skills’ course with one team of students and practicing some abseiling and cliff safety with another group that I’ll be climbing with in Cornwall later this summer. The west coast of Anglesey provided not Read more

Made it down to the beach to catch the last of the light after a fairly hefty day of jobs in and around The Cottage. There was a temptation to head back out climbing, but my lungs are still not up to full capacity and with a busy few weeks on the horizon followed by Read more