Fancy dog-sledding in Norway with a team of professional racing husky dogs? This is exactly the experience that is on offer with Varghiet Sleddogs in Roros. Read my good friend Emma's experience two years after we met dog mushing in Tromso together. Read more

I'm very lucky that not only do I get to go snowboarding at least once a year, but I also get to do this with NewMan. This year was even more special because a group of our friends were there too. We descended upon Colfosco, Alta Badia in the Italian read more

Just over a year ago we spent a week in Hafjell, Norway. Snowboarding by day, hanging out with a few local friends on and off the snow and keeping cosy and warm by night. I'd forgotten how beautiful that blue sky was (it didn't come out every day), how exhausted read more

The third and final chapter in my adventures in dog-mushing up in northern Norway… In this post I go way out of my comfort zone, and then some. Read more

Want the full husky dog experience? Read Chapter One first!The morning of our first sledding expedition, myself and Emma - another journalist on the trip - were given a piece of paper. On it were five names and a number of other letters and scrawlings that would come to read more

I wasn't given much time to think about going to Northern Norway to spend five days as a dog-musher... thank goodness. Because I honestly think if I had been given more time, I probably wouldn't have gone and I wouldn't be sitting here, writing about an experience that changed read more

I returned to Amsterdam from northern Norway late last night and to say I'm tired is a small understatement. However, I have lots I need to catch up on and lots to do to prepare myself for Christmas with family back in the UK. I also need to really sit read more

There is something a little poetic and beautiful about my final trip of 2013 being in the same direction of the first I made this year. In January this year I found myself in Finnish Lapland, having all my high expectations exceeded. And right now, as you read this I'm read more

A special day spent visiting the Westman Islands in southern Iceland, where you can climb a volcano, and learn about the night it erupted! Read more

Once upon a time there was a Bird who couldn't fly. She knew this well but didn't find it stopped her living a wonderful life full of flight. One day this Bird was told that she was going to go up the CN Tower and walk around it freely and read more

I learned to scuba dive on the beautiful Thai island of Koh Lanta, and this post summarises what my experience of scuba diving in Koh Lanta is like. Read more

I have nearly finished my Open Water Diver course. It has been a roller coaster, or rather a bumpy ship ride, of a course and at one point I didn't think I was going to be able to continue or complete it due to an horrific bout of seasickness on read more

I have already referred to the fact that NewMan and I have done more exercise in our first week in Malaysia than we did in perhaps the last 6 months in London. But this was always part of our plan. We were very keen to explore a different way of read more