Dip and chill, Mull and Iona Swimming coach Emma MacDonald set up Wild Hebridean Swimming in 2022 after moving back to Mull. The company offers holidays for open water swimmers, but also retreats for those who can only tread water or do a bit of doggy paddle. These involve short dips …
Read More »10 of the UK’s best autumn foraging trips
Kayaking and fishing off Dorset Fore Adventure runs outdoor activities on and around Studland Bay on the Jurassic coast, offering half-day kayak foraging around Old Harry Rocks (£65), is suitable for vegans and vegetarians, focusing on harvesting wild plants and seaweed. Fishing and foraging (£70) adds fishing for crustaceans and …
Read More »I travel across Britain foraging wild food. Here’s what to look for, and where
Every autumn, my father would load our family of five into his already ancient 1928 Morris and set off from our home in Portsmouth. Laden, as we were, with baskets, boots, crooked walking sticks, gloves and Elastoplasts, we were off blackberry picking. Apart from annual trips to collect cockles from …
Read More »Foraging, art and history in the Kent Downs
Ear pressed to the pale bark, I listen. It’s March, the month when the sap of the silver birch rises. “You can hear it,” says Lucia as I close my eyes to concentrate. “It’s a gurgling, the tree’s lifeblood.” Sadly, I hear nothing apart from a low traffic hum and …
Read More »Foraging and walking on the way to the Sportsman pub in Seasalter
It takes over an hour to walk from Whitstable to the Sportsman, our pub in Seasalter on the north Kent coast, but we always say to allow a bit longer. It’s possible in less time but you don’t want to be running at the end and turning up at the …
Read More »Cooking courses, wellness retreats and foraging: 10 of the best UK holidays for vegetarians and vegans
Mayu Retreats, Norfolk Luxury and vegetarian are two words you rarely get to savour in the same sentence. Which is why Mayu is something of a rarity: beautifully presented, delicious meat-free menus in an opulent setting. Mayu’s philosophy is rooted in nutrition, boosting your intake of as many different plant-based …
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