my latest car-free feature on the Guardian website today www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

Arundel tulip festival

car-free Carmarthenshire www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

flowers and sunshine again for our annual walk from Bridport, where my mum loved, to the field on the Somerset border near Crewkerne, where she is buried...

blossom, birds and flowers in Bushy Park yesterday...

The new Country Walking magazine reminds me of some of last year’s favourite walks: through Oxfordshire bluebell woods, the Lee Valley in Hertfordshire, West Stow Country Park with its thatched huts, Ely in Cambridgeshire and the Hole of Horcum in N Yorks…

flowers, food, great tube station architecture and museums along London's Superloop bus routes...

spring flowers and even blue skies in the Beth Chatto garden in Essex...

my latest theatre review www.thereviewshub.com/cable-street...

Relieving the winter gloom yesterday with spring flowers at Osterley, lights at Canary Wharf and - finally - rousing, relevant musical Cable Street at Marylebone Theatre. www.marylebonetheatre.com/productions/...

Lovely weekend with friends in Norwich, exploring the newly-revamped castle, the cathedral and the Sainsbury Centre...

Two days of art across London with a museum café-crawl, including the V&A, the V&A East Storehouse, the National Gallery’s Radical Harmony exhibition and the Wallace collection…

The February issue of Country Walking is in newsagents now and with it some highlights of mine from a fabulous year of walking: the glorious Creswell Crags and Welbeck estate, gardens at Bowood in Wiltshire, the Norman castle and church at Orford, and coast path at Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire…

my latest car-free coastal adventure for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

yesterday's walk: a grey squirrel, reindeer skulls, a wolf supermoon...

Wassail is celebrated in early January to wake up the trees in apple growing areas in South West England. The wassail cup enables orchard owners to offer refreshment when wassailers visit. Find this locally made wassail cup on the Multaka 'With These Hands' trail. bit.ly/4ojhINP

‘A watery gold sunrise lights the turbulent water’: the wild beauty of the Suffolk coast

A car-free Lake District adventure to visit the new observatory in Grizedale Forest www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Heading into end-of-year mode and totting up the year's mileage. In 2025 I got 152 articles published, 1768 miles walked and 17 wild swims swum... Hoping for more of the same in 2026! Wishing everyone happy winter festivities. x x x x

January 2026 issue of Country Walking (out now) with four walks I did in the last year: snowdrops near Chippenham Fen (Cambs), rhododendrons in Sheringham Park, wooded Wimbledon Common and a beautiful heather-ringed loch in Aberdeenshire. Reminds me to start planning for the year ahead…

Amazing walk along the Sallagh Braes near Larne (Antrim)

About to get the night ferry to Belfast - here's a moonlit view across the Mersey...

Light show in Southwark cathedral

first visit to Rutland Water...

autumn leaves are lovely this year...

Beautiful day on the Dales Way in Cumbria...

My latest theatre review - a spooky Halloween tale in the fabulous Mill at Sonning www.thereviewshub.com/the-shadow-i...

after days of alternating showers and sunshine, a huge rainbow at the end of our road...

finally made it to Longthorpe Tower in Peterborough with its 14th-century wall paintings...

Exmouth in the sunshine...

www.cathedral.net/event-detail... Anyone in Edinburgh should take a look at this artwork in St Mary's episcopal cathedral....

My arty walk through Edinburgh in today's Guardian ... www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Dublin by night...

Wildflowers in Edinburgh Botanic garden before Storm Floris arrived...

New Fisherman mural in Newquay

This book I contributed to is due out in October press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Folkestone Triennial - highly recommended and very easy to reach car-free! www.goodjourney.org.uk/creative-fol...

walking the coast path - Hastings to Rye...

Finally visited West Stow, which I've been meaning to do for ages...

Been exploring some gardens in Suffolk... www.goodjourney.org.uk/suffolk-gard...

Merry Wives of Windsor at the Globe Theatre... www.thereviewshub.com/25-the-merry...

🍃NEW SUMMER OFFER!🍃 Three handpicked collections for you all, free P&P ( UK orders ) with a bit off each book too. Have a browse through our Walking, Garden and Travel collections, lovely books all of these. www.littletoller.co.uk #BookSky #BookCommunity

exploring statues of women in London, following the Westminster safari in a new book by Juliet Rix... www.safehavenbooks.co.uk/londons-stat...

July’s issue of Country Walking magazine features a #walk around the #Lincolnshire Wolds by @phoebetaplin.bsky.social with a route exploring Tennyson Country around the wonderfully named Bag Enderby. Discover more: bit.ly/4eAeCky

Hole of Horcum

exploring Jane Austen's Hampshire...

Clumber Park and Sherwood Forest...