Sauna Stories: My sauna and cold-plunge experience at The Wild Sauna at Whichford Mill in the Cotswolds. If you’ve been following My Norwegian Christmas Adventure daily vlog series (and if not, why not…?!), or my monthly journals here on Splodz … Continued
This post featuring eight woodland walks in the Cotswolds features my regular collaboration with adidas. There’s something quietly magical about walking through woodland in autumn. The colours shift from golden to russet to deep bronze, leaves crunch (or squelch…) underfoot, … Continued
On turning two one-day hikes into an overnight hiking adventure in the Cotswolds: Hiking the Warden’s Way and Windrush Way. Part 2 – the Windrush Way from Bourton-on-the-Water to Winchcombe. Note: This adventure took place in March 2025, before this … Continued
On turning two one-day hikes into an overnight hiking adventure in the Cotswolds: Hiking the Warden’s Way and Windrush Way. Part 1 – the Warden’s Way from Winchcombe to Bourton-on-the-Water. Note: This adventure took place in March 2025, before this … Continued
I planned to hike the Winchcombe Way in the Cotswolds in one weekend. This adventure journal is the story of how it ended up taking two years. And the lessons I learnt through perceived hiking failure. The Winchcombe Way is … Continued
In this weekly blog episode: continuing as an OS Champion, May is National Walking Month, writing a foreword to a walking guidebook, a new long-distance trail in the UK, planting a Cherry Plum tree, and my new pack. The weather … Continued
The aim of this final blog in my Cotswold Way series of posts, is to provide a bunch of hints and tips that will help you have a great experience on this particular National Trail. I wanted to put together … Continued
My friend Fiona and I completed the Cotswold Way National Trail back in April 2023. In my adventure journal series so far, I’ve been recounting each day on the trail – we covered the 108-miles (our mileage total) in six … Continued
My friend Fiona and I hiked the Cotswold Way over six days in April this year, and in recent weeks I’ve been reliving the memory of that National Trail in a series of adventure journal blog posts (start here if … Continued
Weirdly, day five of my Cotswold Way hike, which I did back at the end of April with hiking friend Fiona (start here if you’re not already up to date with my adventure journal series), is the one I think … Continued