We took a Wednesday off of work and school to hike the Seven Sisters trail along the East Sussex coast. It was brilliant! Roughly 14 miles and very hilly, I have never seen our little doggie so wiped by the end of a walk.
My tribe took me to Werribee Gorge for a 10k hike to celebrate Mother’s Day. It’s a very popular day hike in the Melbourne area that’s been on my list since we moved here in 2019. I’m not really sure why it’s taken us so long to get out there but I suspect 8 months…
My youngest had been away all weekend at a Girl Guides camp in the Macedon Ranges and we were due to pick her up Sunday in the late afternoon. A sunny (but brisk) autumn day, free from errands, presented itself so my son and I decided to make an afternoon out of collecting her. We…
I met a new friend through a local women’s outdoors group who invited me to be her teammate at a rogaining event. I had never heard of rogaining but knew it involved walking and/or running through the bush for the better part of the day – count me in! So what is rogaining? “The standard…
This path was a short walk down (1.5km from our place in Dinner Plain) to a viewing platform overlooking Carmichael Falls. The walk was a bit muddy in parts, but overall very well groomed. Halfway down, there was a side path off the main trail to a set of two small cascades. Each time we…
We took one daughter and a dog by car, an hour outside of Melbourne, to hike in the forest. The path was an easy, flat track that followed an old railway line running between Trentham and Lyonville. I find two things to be true each time I set out on an adventure outside of the…
We ventured off on a family outing this weekend north of Sydney to Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. I had been poking around on the NSW Parks page and discovered this interesting hike not too far from home that looked easy to do with the three kids. What made it more enticing was the bit of…
Wild Women on Top (WWOT) is a great organisation that supports adventurous ladies achieve their hiking / trekking goals with the added bonus of a social network. I found this event listed on Eventbrite and thought it would be a good experience best enjoyed with my daughter who is 11. It’s a brilliant way to…
It all started with a chance meeting 14-years-ago in Austria, which facilitated a move from New York to Los Angeles. A work relocation to Seattle led to buying a house, eloping in Iceland and having three adorable babies. Another work move had us find our way to London, England. Almost 6 glorious years, and many…
Another sunny Sunday and we were off to the greener pastures (literally) of Horn Hill just outside of London. We brought some friends along with us this time as we hoped to get their kids interested in hiking. We let our oldest, Fiona, navigate for us which she did beautifully without much adult involvement. Many…
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