Is any desert more evocative? Everyone has heard of it and – for me at least – “Sahara” is a […]
Fez
Our journey to Fez started in Tangier. We’d been in Morocco a day or so, still finding our feet in […]
Chefchaouen
Our base in the Rif was the “Blue Pearl” of Chefchaouen. It is one of those Insta-famous places with people […]
Off to the Rif
The Rif in Northern Morocco is a mountainous, hardscrabble region, home to one and a half million people who are […]
A new continent
The ferry arrived early, slipping quietly into Tangier’s Med Port before sunset. The lowering of the vehicle ramp signalled a […]
Morocco bound
The ferry from Genoa to Tangier takes a languid fifty-one hours, but if you think of it as a Mediterranean […]
Snow
We’ve been parked in an almost deserted campsite for the past few days so P can catch up with some […]
Into Italy
A long drive out of the alps and towards the Dolomites. They are perhaps the most distinctive mountains in Europe, […]
Alpine Austria
If you want to explore mountains, Austria has you covered. I can’t think of anywhere more enthusiastic about getting absolutely […]
Up and over
We’d done quite a lot of pootling through valleys and zigzagging up small roads to farm-stays but we hadn’t crossed […]
