Travel Archives - The Geecologist

Wind, Sand and Stars

We are all young barbarians still enthralled by our new toys. What other meaning can our air races...

Ynys Enlli was among the many remote places of the west and north-west coasts of Britain and...

Ghanaian food delivers some total classics, but this is my favourite. I think it was the Spinach...

Minneapolis Aeronautic missionary of the silent majorities, I jump with cat-like tread from one...

Henry Williamson, the author of Tarka the Otter, loved the abundance and variety of living...

They prefer to ride kneeling, especially if they mean to gallop. It is an extraordinary feat of...

There is no anti-depressant quite like sea-swimming, and Holkham is where I usually go when I’m...

They are not searching for us yet, or, to be more precise, they are searching elsewhere for us....

A handful of pilots, of whom Mermoz was one, surveyed the CasabIanca-Dakar line across the...

I once knew a young suicide. I cannot remember what disappointment in love it was which induced...

I arrived back in Salala on 16 October 1946. I planned to cross the Empty Quarter from Mughshin to...

From Abyssinia I was sent to Syria, where I served in Jabal al Druze and later worked for a year...