Confident now that we could catch waves at our regular beaches – Belhaven and St Andrews – what we had to do now was work on those skills so that they become second nature. As a result of both school surfing club and squad training Harriet has been able to gain a fair edge on this, even...
The sun just about to climb above the horizon
Now, you may have heard this before, but describing The Grand Canyon to people who haven’t been and seen it is very difficult. You can tell them facts:
It’s c280 miles long – which is roughly as far from London to Paris or driving from Edinburgh to...
Like a lot of the National Parks, there’s only so much you can read in advance about what it’s like and what you’ll see and usually the reality can be (a) exactly what you expected, (b) not at all what you expected or (c) along the lines of what you expected, but with a twist.
For us, it was the...
Many of us will be aware of the Joshua Tree, but as they don’t tend to feature on nature programmes or in magazine articles, not many of us know much about them, where they thrive or even what they look like; which is quite surprising when you think that U2 named their greatest (in my opinion) album after them....
Looking south over the moonscape of the valley bottom
As a tourist you have to really want to go to Death Valley as:
It’s not particularly accessible as it’s a long way from anywhere and much of the journey is on ordinary highways rather than Interstate (it’s 350 miles from LA and a good 150 from...