The next day was oriented around a morning trip to Delos, a UNESCO World Heritage site and birthplace of the Greek gods Apollo and Artemis. Although it’s relatively unknown to…
Our Greek adventure begins in the middle of the night, as we traveled via red eye from OPO via LIS to ATH, before arriving in Mykonos at 8:15am. This was…
I’m three-quarters done with the Hadrian’s Wall Path at this point in the story; of the total 84 miles, I’ve knocked down about 60. I have finished with the portions…
Let’s just get this out of the way. I was dropped off in the Housesteads car park around 9AM, ready to strike out for the day. Before departing, however, I…
To the astonishment of absolutely no one, I planned for one of my extra tourism days to coincide at the spot where I first conceived this goofy plan: Housesteads and…
No cute preamble this time, ladies and germs. I got up from an adequate night at The George Hotel (which, honestly, the hotel was lovely, on a river with a…
The first two days of walking, physically, weren’t so bad; the preparation I had done for the past few months did enough to get me ready. Mentally, it had me…
[I should begin with a little clarification from last week’s post. I’m not actually writing this all in real time, this trip took place in May of 2026 and we’re…
In a few days (as of this writing) I’ll be leaving my lovely home in Portugal and making my way to the wilds of northern England, not-so-coincidentally along the border…
For many travelers, getting from their arrival point to their resting place can be the most stressful part of the trip. New place, sometimes a new language, and no matter…
