Wonders of the Way: 1 week walking the Via Francigena

I recently returned from walking 1 week of the Via Francigena, an historic pilgrimage route that begins in the medieval city of Canterbury in south-east England, to Rome, the Eternal City. The section I chose to walk, with 10kg on my back, was from the Olympic capital of Lausanne on Lake Geneva in Switzerland, to [...]

Isle of Barra: Journey to my Gaelic origins

The Isle of Barra, a Gaelic rock in the Outer Hebrides and childhood home of my grandmother. If you thought Scotland was wild, Barra is wilder - with stormy seas, chaotic weather conditions and little connection to the outside world. With recent Gaelic ancestry originating from there, I knew this was the year I had [...]