Frozen Planet? Frozen Body!
Polar bears. Such beautiful, elegant swimmers, marveled for their effortless ways of gliding through the icy, threatening waters of the deep blue arctic ocean…looks easy, doesn’t it? Well, for those […]
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An uphill push…
Skiing downhill is easy, but how many of you can say that you’d be willing to strap a couple of planks to your feet and push yourself up a hill? That’s right. […]
Greatest show on snow!
Snowbombing! No, I don’t mean a massive snowball fight, I mean Glastonbury meets the slopes. Volvo Snowbombing is a music and ski festival held in the Alpine setting of Austria’s […]
Edinburgh
Arthur’s seat is not quite Mount Everest but being the highest peak in Edinburgh, it is quite the trek to the top! This 350 million year old volcano lies dormant just […]
Piping Live! Festival
Bagpipes. Those big bags with long pipes coming out of them, usually spotted attached to a man in a skirt? Ah yes, you know what I mean. Well, head to […]
Great Scot!
For such a small country, Scotland has bashed out some rather astonishing talent. From actors, to poets, to singers, there have been quite a few great Scots. The most famous […]
The Other Side of Berlin
It is most likely that when you are asked to think of Berlin, you think of a wall. And the Second World War. And you’d be right. The wall itself […]
