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Walking in the Picos de Europa

Published: 22nd August 2013 by Laurence Norah - 1 Comment

Three of the Best Australian Day Hikes

Today I’m excited to be hosting a post from a friend and fellow blogger – Monica Shaw. I met Monica when she stayed with us at the small campsite I run here in France, and she offered to write a post about her trip down to Spain, which seemed like a lovely idea. I’m hoping […]

Hiking Cape Raoul, Tasmania

Published: 10th January 2012 by Laurence Norah - Leave a Comment

Three of the Best Australian Day Hikes

One of my favourite walks in Tasmania was the five hour return hike out to Cape Raoul, on the Tasman Peninsula. This is a hike that takes you though native bush and out to cliff tops with quite frankly terrifying drops. There’s little in the way (ok, nothing in the way) of safety barriers, other […]

The Best Day Hikes in New Zealand

Published: 16th November 2011 by Laurence Norah - 17 Comments

Three of the Best Australian Day Hikes

After a year in Australia, I summarised my three favourite day hikes in that wondrous country. It seems only fair therefore to give New Zealand a similar treatment, particularly since hiking (or tramping, as it is known locally), is a major highlight of any visit to New Zealand. All the hikes in this section are […]

Climbing Mount Taranaki in photos

Published: 18th March 2011 by Laurence Norah - 25 Comments

First hut - where the going starts to get tough-001 - scaled

Mount Taranaki is the second highest mountain on New Zealand’s north island, at 2517m (around 8500ft for you folks on the imperial system). The climb up it is a gruelling 17km hike, and this is generally regarded as being one of the toughest day hikes you can do on the north island. With this knowledge […]

More lakes and mountains in Tongariro

Published: 27th February 2011 by Laurence Norah - 5 Comments

Three of the Best Australian Day Hikes

Our time in the Tongariro National Park – the spectacular dual world heritage site on New Zealand’s North Island – is dwindling to an end. The four months we’ve spent here have been fabulous, and now that the end is in sight, with a new adventure on the way (more on that in a later […]

Day hikes: what you need to know

Published: 13th December 2010 by Laurence Norah - 10 Comments

Three of the Best Australian Day Hikes

Living in the shadow of one of New Zealand’s top day hikes means I get regularly asked about what sort of preparation folks need to do in order to have a comfortable and safe walk. It’s a subject that’s close to my heart, having done a fair amount of walking, particularly during my time in […]

The Pillars of Hercules

Published: 14th November 2010 by Laurence Norah - Leave a Comment

Three of the Best Australian Day Hikes

The Tongariro National Park and it’s surroundings, I am starting to realise, are a little bit like Venice. Full of canals and gondolas. No wait. Well, actually there are some canals, but that’s not my point. My point is that the main parts of it, and in particular the Alpine Crossing, are incredibly full of […]

Taranaki Falls

Published: 8th November 2010 by Laurence Norah - 4 Comments

Three of the Best Australian Day Hikes

The Tongariro National Park, which I am living beside, is largely famous (and a dual World Heritage site) because of the three rather awesome giant mountains that sit within it. But an 80,000 hectare park is always going to have more to offer than “just” three towering mountains. And so we went for a walk […]

A Guide to the Tongariro Crossing and Climbing Mount Doom

Published: 3rd November 2010 by Laurence Norah - 61 Comments

Three of the Best Australian Day Hikes

Ok, so I know it’s not really called Mount Doom. Hardy hobbits did not trudge many miles bearing the one ring of power and throw it into the fires of this mountain, which dominates the landscape here for miles around. Yes, it’s real name is a Maori word: Ngauruhoe (pronounced, Ngoh-roo-haw-e – see a full […]

Three of the Best Australian Day Hikes

Published: 27th July 2010 by Laurence Norah - Leave a Comment

Three of the Best Australian Day Hikes

Europe is continuing to astound with its ongoing comedic definition of summer, which whilst being bad news for me and my desires to explore more mountains, may be good news for you in that I can continue on from yesterdays post on the Northern Territory, and talk further about parts of my trip around Australia. […]

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