There’s a lot to learn when training or preparing for an in accompanied and self sufficient expedition. Over the course of the last four days, I have been working with two 6th form groups as they prepare for a Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Expedition. From map reading, to shopping, and cleaning, to cooking there’s Read more

For the first time in about a month, I actually felt cold! The blue skies have begun to develop into thunderstorms, but as the first rains began to fall, we went up to the river to clear our heads in the ‘swimming pool’. Clare led the charge and I soon followed into the very cool Read more

Continuing this months unofficial theme of always seeming to be on the move, I made it back across Ireland on Tuesday, and then the Irish Sea in time for a night at The Cottage, before getting up for a morning dip in the river with Clare on Wednesday. Even though I could have done with Read more

It was overcast but calm for our return to Cruit Island, but the lack of blue sky was more than compensated by the appearance of a pod of dolphins in the bay! A short walk along the colourful cliff tops took us to a new climbing area, where the guidebook indicated that there would be Read more

Gola Island is somewhere that I’d have liked to have climbed a few years ago when Clare and I spent the summer travelled around the west coast of Ireland. At the time, we never made it this far north, so it was great today to finally be making the short (about 15minutes and for €15.00 Read more

Compared to my recent travels, I could hardly claim to be travelling light on this expedition, as I waited outside The Cottage for my lift to arrive. After a pleasant crossing from Holyhead to Dublin, we travelled an hour north in the minibus to stay the night at Loughcrew where there is a 5000 year Read more