It happens every year. I stand on the cusp of spring, which seems to be late this year, and wonder how I will do it. Like the dark comfort of depression’s blanket, winter is eas...
Laugavegur, near Hrafntinnusker in June. The Laugavegur is Iceland's most popular multi-day hike for good reason. Starting amongst the colourful rhyolite mountains in Landmannalagar, th...
Victoria Street, Edinburgh. Despite the impression my lifestyle portrays, I don’t actually hate cities… which is a good job really, because I’m currently tasked with updating the E...
On the Islay ferry, September 2022 I'm preoccupied with autumn. It's not so much the orange leaves, or blackberries between thorns; I'm not a fan of 'pumpkin spice'. No, for me, autumn i...
https://www.featherytravels.com/2022/09/27/rok-og-rigning-islay-storms/
Landmannalaugar, September 2022 It was my own fault, I’d done it on purpose. 89 days in Fjallabak; it was quarter of a year, the summer, but for me the season felt short. 25 days on, 5...
https://www.featherytravels.com/2022/09/16/the-open-end-landmannalaugar-summer-2022/
Landmannalaugar. October 2021 Fjallabak is full of ghosts. I've heard their stories: the woman that drowned in the lake, the boy that's scared of the dark... someone floating around in t...
Gallanach Cottage on the north coast with Rùm on the horizon For my second instalment of 'islands from your armchair', I wanted to show you Muck, the smallest of the four Small Isles, w...
https://www.featherytravels.com/2020/04/01/islands-from-your-armchair-muck/
While life is consumed by an overwhelming uncertainty, I've found it helpful to think of some beautiful places that will still be there at the end of all this. The Hebrides might seem a W...
https://www.featherytravels.com/2020/03/30/islands-from-your-armchair-raasay/
Poet Einar Benediktsson by Ásmundur Sveinsson. It's more than half way through our season in Hrafntinnusker and although you might have some romantic notion of it being quiet or even ...
https://www.featherytravels.com/2019/08/21/reykjavik-with-sculptures-and-tourists-in-the-sunshine/
Bláhnjúkur from the Laugavegur. I'm not going to pretend this is the "ultimate guide" or draw you a map as, having worked there for much of the last two summers , I know how important...
https://www.featherytravels.com/2018/07/14/short-and-half-day-hikes-from-landmannalaugar-iceland/
Clouds at Landmannalaugar. Being flexible with your timing and working around the weather forecast can make the difference between a great hike and a disaster. The two most re...
https://www.featherytravels.com/2018/09/05/how-to-check-the-weather-before-hiking-the-laugavegur/
On the River Gambia, from Janjanbureh. I first wrote a version of this post for Anita Hendrieka , but I put a lot of thought and effort into it, so I wanted to share it with you here to...
https://www.featherytravels.com/2019/01/16/the-gambia-an-introductory-guide/
My Mum on Lower Killeyan beach, The Oa I had not seen my family, or visited the Hebrides, since the previous January; a trip to Islay was long overdue... Sunny day at my family...
Sagres, Portugal - it seems like a long time since I have been able to wear a billowing sun dress. Twitter tells me that the German word of the year for 2018 is WEltschmerz (n.) - the f...
Desires for less and more jostle under my consciousness. I can't settle. I'm chasing an ever-elusive "enough", but am always swamped or somehow lacking. The thought of this perfect life, s...
https://www.featherytravels.com/2018/12/19/train-brain-splat-how-to-save-the-world-loop/
Berufjörður About autumn, haust, in the East Fjords... Berunestindur and Steinketill Smátindafjall and Krosstindur Moss and specks of snow. The days have be...
https://www.featherytravels.com/2018/11/28/from-sunrise-to-sunset-for-now-we-re-in-the-half-light/
Please follow us on twitter! It's nearly two years since I left Calais. The refugee crisis is less of a deafening scream, swallowing my other thoughts. Now it is more of a solid lump, a...
Over the last six months, this blog has become a hikers' instruction manual. My "warden" job in the highlands is totally immersive — I love it for that — and there is little space i...
https://www.featherytravels.com/2018/10/24/moving-east-to-winter-s-edge/