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All UK festivals use volunteer staff to help keep everyone safe, organised and having a good time. I’ve had a brilliant time this summer at Bearded Theory and Download, and now I’m trying a tiny festival in some Cambridgeshire woodland. And at this festival, I’ve volunteered directly with the festival organisers themselves!
All UK festivals use volunteer staff to help keep everyone safe, organised and having a good time. I had a brilliant time a few weeks ago at Bearded Theory and now I’m trying a bigger festival - actually the 3rd biggest in the UK - Download. At this festival, I would be driving the accessibility buggies, helping people with their luggage, and also getting to see all three headliners!
All UK festivals use volunteer staff to help keep everyone safe, organised and having a good time. I’ve often observed the characters in high-vis waving me in the right direction in car parks, or affixing a band around my wrist and thought - I wonder what that’s like?
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As I left the nightmare that had been my visit to Kolasin, I figured my day couldn’t get any worse. I was wrong.
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In this episode, I freeze my nuts off in a beautiful swimming hole, buy cheap food in France then head to the spectacular Lake Geneva!
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Back in 2023 I combined #vanlife and the greatest UK Festival - Glastonbury.
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How had it come to this? Standing on the bank of a raging, rain-swollen river and the only route to the other side and the path home was via a fallen log. A log which was no wider than your average telegraph pole and was suitably slippy due to the incessant rain. We took a collective intake of breath as the first person of our group inched onto the 20m walkway to safety.
Deer Mountain, at 915m, towers over Ketchikan, Alaska. It is screaming out to be climbed, with the trailhead being walkable from the town.
I was sat in one of the outside seats on a small boat heading towards Fingal’s Cave on Staffa Island, sea air flowing over my bald head, eyes fixed firmly overboard, scanning the speeding sea. The waterways of the Inner Hebrides are inhabited by whales and dolphins, and if they were here, I was determined to see them.
It was a frigidly cold New Zealand winters morning. We’d left the eerily mist-covered Lake Taupo pre-dawn and were now whistling our way 200 miles north. Colm, my travel-buddy was asleep in the double-bed above my head and I was humming ‘The Fields of Athenry' whilst driving our RV in the direction of the Waitomo Caves.
Tomorrow I will visit the Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus in southern Paraguay and I am unsure of what to expect. I knew that undertaking this challenge would take me to some places that I wouldn’t ordinarily be interested in, this seems to be the case here.
After a long drive from the Northumberland Coast, where I’d spent a day exploring its coastal castles, I arrived at the miserable and sodden Herding Hill campsite. As I sat in my car, waiting for a gap in the weather so that I could pitch my tent, I wondered what life must have been like here nearly 2 millennia ago when the Romans were in town.
Grouse Mountain towers over the North Vancouver skyline. It has a rich history, a huge range of activities and an extreme fitness challenge. Sounds like the place for me.
Come out of the car park and turn right to head south along the Pacific Rim Highway. Walk along the hard shoulder, being careful of oncoming traffic. Start counting the telegraph poles as you walk and turn onto the path just after the 15th pole.
As I surfaced at the top of the magnificent 10-sided Eagle Tower, looking out from a perfect vantage point over the Menai Straits, I was struck by one undeniable truth - Wow, my legs hurt! Caernarfon Castle is a wonderland of turrets, towers and magnificent gates but having now traversed its entirety, I was really wishing I hadn’t climbed Snowdon the day before.
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Goa in February is a wonderful place. Temperatures are in the high, balmy 20’s and it’s possible to collect the total rainfall in a small Balti dish. The contrast to the Northern Hemisphere winter is absolute. When you add the fact that it is Goa Carnival during this month then surely there are few better places to be on earth at this time of the year.
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I arrived in Mumbai, India without a huge number of preconceptions. The trip was a last-minute booking so I hadn't had months to investigate my destination via google or any other search engine for that matter. There are others, right? This didn't stop me being surprised at every turn.
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To understand how this is possible you first have to understand the Alaskan people and their relationship with fishing. They love it, and you'd do very well to find an Alaskan that hasn't wet a line at some point in their life. So, when I travelled to Alaska in 2016 I had my eyes on one very big prize.
Sat shivering in a beaten up old truck, icy Alaskan air blowing in through the rust holes, waiting for my host to complete a federal drugs test, the question of whether this was what I wanted for #tunnocksworldtour was extremely pressing. The mangy dog at my feet was probably pondering the same dilema.
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