Today I met a Greek ultrarunner. Coming down a dirt fire road, I was approaching the back side of the low mountain I had walked to the top of the previous evening after arriving inRead More
It was an amazing experience to visit the Acropolis. The day after I arrived in Greece, I went there in mid-afternoon and ended up having the place virtually to myself. I was able to wanderRead More
When I entered the country on 17 June, Serbia was doing really well, but shortly before I arrived the government had relaxed controls and the Covid-19 infection numbers started rising again. I was worried notRead More
As I approached the three cottages strung in a row along the dirt vehicle track at around 1050 metres above sea level, 7 km into my run, my body’s yearning for caffeine took over myRead More
A thunderhead still brilliant white, shadowed grey, boils upward like a nuclear explosion over the mowed fields. In the northeastern sky a bolt of lightning slices down through the bright sunlight; a few seconds later,Read More
For the first time in seven months I am fully alone. The owner of this apartment lives three-plus hours away in Kraljevo, I know no one here, and I am in a sparsely populated neighbourhoodRead More
For three hours I walked up the steep mountainside through thick fog, the last hour with no track to follow or way to get my bearings, instead following my instinct. Just as I thought IRead More
The mountain commands my attention out this open window. I see WH Murray up there, clinging to a buttress, balanced, rope dropping downwards from his waist; or crossing a glacier, intent on scaling the rockRead More
There are two main layers, so to speak, to how I choose where to go. The first is practical: 1a. Which country: in or out of the Schengen area? a country I feel at homeRead More
I’d better make some money soon because I’m spending all the profits haha. Helsinki is rivalled in expensiveness only by the UK and Ireland so far, and it might outdo them. And now here IRead More