Driving to the Alps has always been a hugely popular way for Brits to access the snow and ice of Europe. With regular ferries and Channel Tunnel crossings daily, it has never been easier to get onto to the continent. The actual costs of doing so however depend largely on when exactly you wish to travel and how long you…
Posts By Tom Shooter
Firstly, I’d like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a very Happy New Year, I hope you’ve had a lovely time over the festive period and have plenty of exciting things to look forward to in 2016. There is a lot of talk at this time of year about New Year’s Resolutions, with promises of giving something up or…
My family and I had decided to spend Christmas 2015 in Germany. My brother had spent some time on a family road trip there during the summer and had fallen in love with it. On their previous visit they had taken their car on the overnight ferry from Harwich to the Hook of Holland, then driven down, covering a total…
I was on a round-the-world trip, my second long-haul trip since leaving university. My trip so far had taken me through Northern India and Nepal. I had seen the most incredible sights, eaten the most fantastic food and met the most amazing people. Flying into Perth from Chennai, I was alarmed at how different Australia was from India. It was so…
I have been lucky enough to travel all over the world for both work and pleasure. The majority of my travelling has been to developing nations where there is often a stark contrast from the level of infrastructure and development we are used to back home. This is part of the reason I have chosen these countries, I have wanted…
We had a fantastic time living and climbing in Rjukan in January/February 2013. Rjukan has become one of the most popular ice climbing destinations in Europe and for good reason. There are reliable, high-quality ice falls all within a few miles of the town centre and the temperature during January, February and into March rarely rises above freezing. There is…
An extract from my diary on our first London to Paris recce in May 2012: Our London to Paris Bike Ride had begun well and we’d made it to the ferry on time. As we arrived at Dover we decided to get some groceries from the supermarket with a view of avoiding the overpriced food on the ferry. We bought…