In the past when I've visited western Norway I've pretty much stayed around the fjords, so this time I wanted to head farther out and explore the coastline a bit. After staying at the Kråkenes Lighthouse, I had three more places I wanted to visit along Norway's west coast: the ...
Spend A Stormy Night in Norway’s Kråkenes Lighthouse
Right before leaving on my road trip through southern Norway I was telling some friends how I didn't really have a plan for where to go and my friend's husband pulled out his phone and started showing me photos of waves crashing over a house on the coast. You should stay ...
Hiking in Norway : 17 Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make
On my recent trip to Finnmark I had to skip out on a couple of days of hiking because the weather was really bad. On one of those days I was sitting in a cosy café chatting to the owner and when I told him what my plans had been for the day before it started snowing (yes, in ...
Climbing Mount Nyiragongo Volcano in the Congo
Updated June 2020 "So how fit are you?" Natalie and I had just met outside the cafeteria at Gatwick airport, a few hours before our flight to Rwanda, and this was about the third sentence she said to me - right after "hello" and "my name is Natalie." "Um..." "Have you ...
Inside My Camera Bag: All My Travel Photography Gear
I have to admit, this is the sort of blog post I love reading, as I'm always curious about what gear my favorite bloggers are using and I'm also just a bit nosey like that. But even though I get a lot of questions about what photography equipment I travel with and what I use to ...