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Turf Houses: Iceland’s Original ‘Green’ Buildings – Feature for the BBC
October 30, 2022 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Turf Houses: Iceland’s Original ‘Green’ Buildings – Feature for the BBC

Journey far enough into the northwest of Iceland and you come to a place beyond the volcanic rock: a green, […]

Hiking Coast-to-Coast Across Scotland: With No Trail – Feature for Adventure.com
January 19, 2022 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Hiking Coast-to-Coast Across Scotland: With No Trail – Feature for Adventure.com

With all the long-distance walking routes there are now, it’s hard to conceive of why, in winsome walker-friendly Europe, one […]

Where to Stay in South America’s Traveller Hotspots – Articles for Culture Trip
January 16, 2021 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Where to Stay in South America’s Traveller Hotspots – Articles for Culture Trip

My latest series of articles for Culture Trip, just out, focuses on legendary South American traveller hangouts from Cartagena, Colombia […]

Of Wine, Good Pubs, Ultimate Travel and Wales
January 13, 2021 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Of Wine, Good Pubs, Ultimate Travel and Wales

What a strange and stop-start year it has been. With the nosedive in the popularity (and possibility) of travelling overseas […]

A Little Post-Lockdown Update
August 6, 2020 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

A Little Post-Lockdown Update

Lockdown was never going to be any travel writer’s finest hour. Writing about travelling… within five miles of your front […]

The Northern Saints Project: Writing into Being the Christian Crossroads of the British Isles
March 7, 2020 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

The Northern Saints Project: Writing into Being the Christian Crossroads of the British Isles

It’s been a quiet three months on this site, but no chance of that being reflected in reality! Requests from […]

Dream Trips: Adventurous Journeys From Across the Parts of the Globe I Know and Love for the Telegraph
December 3, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Dream Trips: Adventurous Journeys From Across the Parts of the Globe I Know and Love for the Telegraph

Hiking across the causeway to Lindisfarne in Northumberland on the St Cuthbert’s Way can seem, from certain angles when the […]

Latest Books Out
December 2, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Latest Books Out

2019 is nearly out and as the year speeds towards conclusion, I realise that several new titles I  have contributed […]

Bothy Bagging – Feature for Walk Magazine
October 29, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Bothy Bagging – Feature for Walk Magazine

Autumn’s properly upon us, along with the icier weather, so how to explore the Great Outdoors when the temperatures up […]

Uttermost Ends of the Earth? My Work for Hiking/Trail Running Site GetSweatGo on Some of My All-time Favourite Treks
September 30, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Uttermost Ends of the Earth? My Work for Hiking/Trail Running Site GetSweatGo on Some of My All-time Favourite Treks

The classic Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru. Hiking Eastern Europe’s most mountainous terrain, the High Tatras in Slovakia. […]

Trail of the Unexpected – Feature for Adventure Travel
August 9, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Trail of the Unexpected – Feature for Adventure Travel

Liechtenstein is, nearly always, unexpected whenever it crops up in conversation. The minuscule size of this nation – just 24km […]

Small Country, Big Hike – Feature on Liechtenstein for N by Norwegian’s Adventure Issue!
June 13, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Small Country, Big Hike – Feature on Liechtenstein for N by Norwegian’s Adventure Issue!

A lot of you might have already seen this feature, given Norwegian’s increasingly vast network these days. June is their […]

LATA Latin American Travel Writer of the Year Winner!
May 16, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

LATA Latin American Travel Writer of the Year Winner!

Was a huge, huge honour on Tuesday night to pick up the LATA Latin American Travel Writer of the Year […]

The Best Hikes in Wales (That Aren’t Snowdon) – Article for Rough Guides
April 20, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

The Best Hikes in Wales (That Aren’t Snowdon) – Article for Rough Guides

I realise I never posted this piece on Wales’ best non-Snowdon hikes, but as it was originally published for the […]

Booming Blaenau: The Welsh Mining Town Transforming Itself into an Adventure Hotspot – Article for Adventure.com
April 17, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Booming Blaenau: The Welsh Mining Town Transforming Itself into an Adventure Hotspot – Article for Adventure.com

  The other week, whilst elsewhere in the country people were enjoying a spot of sunshine, I spent some time […]

Out on a High: Exploring Slovakia’s High Tatras – Article for Lonely Planet
April 16, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Out on a High: Exploring Slovakia’s High Tatras – Article for Lonely Planet

Mountains. I get a nostalgic dewy-eyed gleam to my eyes just thinking about them: those I have visited and those […]

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