Contemplating the line in the world. Our latest piece on The Winding Trail comes from Denmark's North Sea coast, a wild and windswept place that took us on a journey through memory from the Irish Sea to the Baltic shore... the-winding-trail.com/2026/02/19/f...  #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor

This is me, @katyderbyshire.bsky.social and @ajbwells.bsky.social about to start our chat about the life and work of Christa Wolf. Luckily we only found out Wolf’s daughter was in the audience after we’d finished!

Come along to our Christa Wolf event in Berlin tomorrow to hear @katyderbyshire.bsky.social read from her translations—and more—while we explore Wolf's post-Wall legacy in discussion & texts submitted from all across town >> psst also it's free >> www.lettretage.de/Termine/chri...

The latest long read on The Winding Trail is from the wild and windswept western coastline of North Jutland in Denmark. It is a story of storm surges and crooked trees, lighthouses that have been moved to stop them falling into the sea, and the poetic prose of Dorthe Nors...

Morning light above the Müllerstraße… #boulderingberlin

Tomorrow night! Come and join us :-)

On Saturday I'll be reading a new piece inspired by Christa Wolf at this fantastic event, after @katyderbyshire.bsky.social @paulscraton.bsky.social and Alex Wells discuss the grande dame. sites.google.com/view/mayroec...

They did it! Congratulations to Nepal’s cricketers who won their first ever T20 World Cup match against Scotland… having taken England so close in the first match of the tournament. Brilliant stuff… hope all my mates in Pokhara and Kathmandu are proud and having a party!

A morning walk through the wintery city… strolling Berlin #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor

And Thomas Mann learned pretty quickly that “non political” is in itself a political stance. I thought we were beyond having to make this decidedly obvious point but clearly not…

Want to write something for is and read with us at our event later this month? There’s still time to submit…

deadline closes FEB 10TH send us your BEST

"We failed to protect our winters, and now we don’t know how to handle it when it makes a ghostly return..." Our latest newsletter from The Winding Trail went out into the world this morning. the-winding-trail.com/2026/02/06/p...

A short Sunday run during which Fläming never felt so wild and inhospitable, except… a good proportion of this run was done on the immaculately cleared bike paths that link the villages and keep people moving whether on two wheels or two feet, whatever the weather… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor

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Our latest piece for The Winding Trail is all about our unexpected trip to the Netherlands and how it is sometimes in the moment when plans are derailed that journeys of discovery begin... the-winding-trail.com/2026/01/17/t... #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor #travel

It exists!

Den Haag in the snow…

Netherlands. This was not in any plan, but quite taken by Den Haag and surroundings…

Thirty years since the end of the greatest comic strip of all time… and it landed with a message of joy…

It's almost the end of the year and no more books will be finished before the clock strikes midnight tomorrow night, so it's time to year my favourite reads of the year…

Our latest postcard from The Winding Trail. In it, we reflect a little on the strange, calm beauty of these days 'between the years' and share a short film about Nepal and link to some of our latest writing and photography, including a long read from Japan. the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/28/p...

Between the years…

Christmas walk to our local lake… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor

Strolling into Christmas, from Wedding to Hohenschönhausen… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor

We've added a new highly subjective guide to The Winding Trail, to a place we've only just returned from: Pokhara in Nepal. the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/22/w...

Picking up Lotte to bring her home for Christmas… but not before a wander around Bremen University’s lovely lake… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor

Adventures in Psychojography… morning run out from the Uni in Bremen and across the motorway into the drained marshlands of Blockland and Hollerland, shrouded in mist with the geese calling across the fields… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor

Fourteen years since we said goodbye to Václav Havel, but I’m still reading him, still arguing with him, still learning from him…

I’ve long found Chomsky problematic, which began for me with Bosnia… this piece explains it all very well...

Some reading for a Sunday afternoon... our journey to the Kiso Valley in Japan, where we walked a section of the Nakasendō trail and sheltered from the rain among the five sacred trees of the Akasawa forest. the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/14/m...

We recently relaunched The Winding Trail, with essays, stories and photography from our travels in the outdoors. One of the long reads is about a journey through the Harz mountains, following in the footsteps of Heinrich Heine... 1/2

Two weddings in one day in Pokhara. Pretty special.

Another fine day visiting schools in Nepal. What the teachers, communities and indeed the kids themselves achieve despite everything is remarkable and humbling. So we have to try to have their back and make it even just a little bit easier…

'A Dream of White Horses' Paul Scraton @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social in Waterstones, Deansgate, #Manchester

Could you help us fund a new school building? The classrooms at Jana Jagriti school near Besisahar are not safe but with support Pahar Trust Nepal can build a new six-classroom building for these kids. It’s a long shot, but if anyone out there has the means or knows someone who does, let me know…

School visit in a small village in the hills of Nepal… I’m an Ambassador for Pahar Trust Nepal and it was amazing to see some of their work in action; in this case a renovation and refurbishment of a 4-room school badly damaged by the 2015 earthquake…

Traffic jam, Pokhara-style

In Kathmandu…

Joyful that it is to be back in Nepal…

Writing about the Nord Express today.

We just sent out the first edition of our rebooted newsletter from The Winding Trail... you can read it on the site (where you can also sign up for future editions): the-winding-trail.com/2025/11/16/p...

My essay about the joy of the night train is up on The Winding Trail, a long read for a lazy Saturday or Sunday morning, dreaming about adventures past and journeys to come… the-winding-trail.com/2025/07/25/t...

Reading and remembering the Romanisches Cafe in what might be the strangest and most interesting building in the centre of Berlin, the much-maligned Europa Center. With @marcelkrueger.bsky.social

Check out this author photo... I'm coming straight out of a Steinbeck tale to share stories of some of my favourite Berlin writers from the 1920s and 1930s, and reading from BUILT ON SAND (my Berlin novel). It's this Friday. @marcelkrueger.bsky.social will be there. @slowberlin.bsky.social too.

Yorkshire Sunday… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor

The Gorreana tea plantation on the island of São Miguel, was - for a long time - the only place in Europe where tea was produced and its history tells us a lot about the difficulties of making a life in the middle of the ocean… the-winding-trail.com/2025/08/29/t... #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor

One of my recent posts on The Winding Trail is about exploring the hidden valleys and unheralded peaks, and the questions they raise about not only why we travel but how we do it... the-winding-trail.com/2025/10/15/t...

In Norway ‘its little hut…was built by the community for no other reason than to give people a place to shelter, a place to walk to and to take a rest, and a place to protect them if they were unlucky and protection were needed.’ @paulscraton.bsky.social 🙏 the-winding-trail.com/2025/10/15/t...

Yesterday we launched the updated version of The Winding Trail, a project dedicated to adventures being the front door and the joy of being in the outdoors… the-winding-trail.com