Tag: Adventures with a baby
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Cycle Touring on Shetland
We spent nine days cycling the length of Shetland with our two young children last summer as part of a five week tour of Scotland. This is Laura’s account of our time at top of the UK… Famous for ponies, puffins and knitting, Shetland is a popular destination for bird spotters and wildlife watchers. However,…
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Walking the Dales Way with a Baby
In December 2019 (pre-Covid), Laura and I walked the 80-mile ‘Dales Way’ long-distance footpath, carrying our son along the way. Here’s how it went… Our plan was to spend a week walking the Dales Way. As luck would have it, the start of the Dales Way is not far from our current home in Yorkshire,…
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Cycling to the Åland Islands with a baby
Last summer, Laura and I spent a month cycling up the Baltic coast towards the Aland Islands: Scandinavia’s answer to the Hebrides. Accompanying us for his first long tour was our son, nine months old at the time, towed behind me in a trailer. We did the journey there and back by ferry and train…
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Why Tyre Dragging is the Perfect Preparation for Parenthood
When I was a care-free bachelor, I used to spend my spare time dragging tyres: Ostensibly, this was in preparation for a North Pole expedition which never happened. But really I think I just liked hard physical labour. After getting married, my wife and I started spending our spare time dragging tyres: Although, we were…