Tag Archives: kayaking

Coast hugging, Bonifacio, Corsica When I first visited Corsica, I hiked down the spine of the Corsican mountains, barely seeing the sea except for glimpses from a bird’s eye perspective. This time, as I hugged the coastline, dipping in and out of sea caves, I felt as though I was …

I think of it as the “adventure moment”: when the guide says goodbye; when the boat unexpectedly pulls up to the riverbank and the captain tells you to get off; when no one speaks any language you understand; when you have to call on your own resources. The adventure starts …

“Hello, over there in Albania!”, my kayaking guide Gigo shouts across the water as he paddles along effortlessly. He doesn’t really need to shout, because although we’re in Montenegro, we’re only a few metres away from the Albanians. We’re on the Buna (Bunë) River, a 40km stretch of water which …

We arrive by night, the wind and rain battering Svolvaer harbour, the last stop on a 3½-hour ferry journey from mainland Bodø through the ink-black Arctic waters of northernmost Norway to the Lofoten Islands. My girlfriend and I have come here to kayak in some of the world’s most dramatic …

An airport chef who sued his employer for  £2.2million after he claimed he was left barely able to walk following an accident at work, has had his compensation claim thrown out after he was pictured on Facebook kayaking with his children.   Ferenc Sumegi, 49, who lives in Berkshire, strained his back lifting a fish …

On a small weir by the riverbank, a heron stands motionless. I feel a quiet reverence as I glide past in my kayak, propelled by the fast-moving River Suir. It’s a bright morning and I’m getting a nature fix, kayaking from Clonmel to the village of Kilsheelan in County Tipperary. …

One reason that I love going to Howmore in South Uist – the second-largest island of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides – is that it reminds me of aspects of my childhood. Growing up in my home village in Ness near the Butt of Lewis at the northern tip of the Western …