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North Africa: 3. Libya
At Tunis airport it was obvious we were the only non-Arabs on the flight to Tripoli. As we boarded, people were asking if we were journalists; of course we weren't, but we stuck to the job description on our visa forms of 'engineers'. Once landed in Tripoli airport we joined …
Read moreNorth Africa: 2. Tunisia
Tunisia was an unexpected destination after our time in Egypt, but our travel options had been limited by this point after the Libyan consul in Alexandria refused us entry visas. We submitted another visa application before leaving Cairo, hoping that we could pick up entry stamps at Tripoli airport three …
Read moreNorth Africa: 1. Egypt
Deciding that you want to go travelling somewhere is the easy part. Organising and making the dream happen is the much harder next step. To make an east-west traverse across North Africa was the idea of my friend Oli, as a sort of procrastination for returning to the UK from …
Read moreFire and Ice in Kamchatka
The guys over at letsbewild.com have made one the photos from our expedition to the Kamchatka Peninsula as their 'travel photo of the day'! Fantastic news, and well worth checking out the rest of their website for bucketfuls of inspiration to get out there and explore, or even to submit …
Read moreRhobell Fawr & Dduallt
Rhobell Fawr is one of the many hills people drive past on their way to Snowdonia without realising that there are in fact some pretty stunning hikes to be done in Mid Wales as well. The advantage of course is that because people flock to Snowdon or Tryfan, walks on …
Read moreBirds on the Dyfi
Acute toothache meant plans for spending the weekend underground in Daren Cilau had to be shelved. It did however leave Hollie and I free to visit the wildlife reserves next to the Dyfi estuary on Sunday. We first dropped in to the Dyfi Osprey Project to see how the new …
Read moreMendip misery
A trip down the Technical Masterpiece in Eastwater Cavern is probably some of the gnarliest caving you can do on Mendip, and certainly not a place you would hope to get rescued from. It's less than 300 metres long, however the tight passage is a real test of caving technique …
Read moreMoel Fferna and the Bridge of Death
On a weekend away in North Wales with the ACC last weekend, we decided to visit the Moel Fferna Slate Quarry. Much of the working here was done entirely underground, operating on seven levels. When the mine closed all adits were sealed, leaving only a ventilation shaft for access. This …
Read moreThe Blue Greenies
All the large caves in Wales are renowned for a particular formation, usually hidden away in the far reaches of the system. In Draenen there's The Geryon, Aggy's is the Courtesan, and in Daren Cilau there are the Blue Greenies. The journey to see these uniquely colourful speleothems however is …
Read morePumlumon Fawr
Although it was pretty cold and dry for the last week, Ingo and I suffered the elements quite heavily on our hike up Pumlumon Fawr yesterday. Not that it dampened spirits at all - the walk is a pretty good one, with plenty of variation and also away from the …
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