Hemp, glaciers and rug sellers | Hopper Valley, Pakistan

Visiting the Hopper Glacier from Karimabad sounded like a great little day trip but it proved to be rather challenging without a private car. We began with a hitchhike down to the main road with a lovely elderly couple that insisted if we come to Peshawar that we must stay with them. From the junction…

Let the Alaskan road trip begin

Daphne, Craig and I said farewell to Anchorage and drove east along the Seward Highway. The sky was the clearest it had been since we’d arrived in Alaska and we felt like we were constantly surrounded by mountains, probably because we were! The road wiggled along the coastline with the Turnagain Arm to our right…

Buarbreen glacier and the return of the cat

It was due to be a rainy day so we decided to save the long Trolltunga hike for better weather and hike up to the Buarbreen glacier near Odda. It’s an ‘arm’ of the Folgefonna Glacier, and at 200km2 it’s the 3rd largest glacier in Norway. In the past 100 years it’s been receding back…