Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
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Having an adventure on holiday is such a subjective notion. The skydivers who recently completed the first ever parachute jump over Mount Everest spent 15 years planning and $24000 each to get their adventure kicks. Personally, I am a bit less extreme. My first big travel adventure was in my early twenties, when I went [...]
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Tags: aquacity, coasteering, connemara, crete flowers, cryotherapy, delphi mountain lodge, goodleaf, ingrid wagner, morocco, people and places, preseli, responsible travel, sea kayaking, slovakia, treeclimbing, volunteering, walking, weaving, women adventure, wwoof
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
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(first published in the column, My Life in Travel, The Observer, 8 March 2009) Interview with Paul McCathie, recreational tree climber, Goodleaf Tree Climbing Adventures, Isle of Wight I started climbing trees after a gap year travelling. I came home to my native New Zealand in search of a ‘real job’, saw an advert for [...]
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Tags: goodleaf, isle of wight, treeclimbing
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
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Gone are the purple rinses, the Isle of Wight is the new black. Or should I say green. It surfs, it sculpts, it sings, and it’s shouts sustainability. It was also the guts of a hundred quid to go there by car ferry on the weekend I wanted to travel, which certainly encouraged me to [...]
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Tags: ethical tourism, goodleaf, green tourism, isle of wight, responsible tourism, treeclimbing, vintage vacations
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