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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, […]

Scotland and its Whisky: A First Taste – Article for Lonely Planet
August 19, 2022 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Articles

Scotland and its Whisky: A First Taste – Article for Lonely Planet

I love a theme that eases you in, ever so gently, to in-depth, off-the-beaten-track exploration of a country, and for […]

Travel Guides for National Geographic and the Sunday Times… Image as per publication in Sunday Times
July 18, 2021 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Articles

Travel Guides for National Geographic and the Sunday Times…

It’s been a manically busy summer after the lockdown lull. Succinct guides to various travel hotspots have become very much […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Coracle Catch – Feature for Morning Calm Magazine
September 28, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Articles

Coracle Catch – Feature for Morning Calm Magazine

All this month, as you may have seen if you have been flying with Korean Air recently (!) my feature […]

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 […]

The Viennese Cafes That Force You to Talk to Strangers – Article for Adventure.com
July 2, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Articles

The Viennese Cafes That Force You to Talk to Strangers – Article for Adventure.com

As a coffee addict, I adore Vienna’s coffeehouses. Not because of the coffee necessarily. But because of the environment. They […]

Inverclyde’s Radical Rejuvenation: Can this Scottish Port Become the UK’s Top Cruise Hub? – Article for the Telegraph
June 5, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Articles

Inverclyde’s Radical Rejuvenation: Can this Scottish Port Become the UK’s Top Cruise Hub? – Article for the Telegraph

The River Clyde. Long synonymous with either the boom of industry – or the death of it, and the deprivation […]

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 […]

On Welsh Craft Brews…
May 8, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Articles

On Welsh Craft Brews…

Scotland has its whisky and Ireland has Poitín. But on some beery research for the Welsh food and drink quarterly […]

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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