This is Part Three of our Canal Boat Odyssey. Parts One and Two can be found HERE and HERE respectively 😉 We spent a total of four nights on board the Henley. In hindsight we probably set ourselves way too big a journey, because we wanted to go all the way from the hire place […]
Four adults on a relaxing, 4-night canal boat cruise. What could possibly go wrong? Unfortunately, when three of the adults are Slaters, things are bound to get interesting… It’s always been a dream of ours to try living aboard a narrow boat, and drift along the English countryside on the canals, occasionally winding a lock […]
It’s strange, but the more we travel the more we actually aspire to own our own home! Maybe we are sick of packing everything we own up into boxes in my poor Dad’s spare room, or maybe we’ve just been to so many amazing properties. We are constantly collecting cool ideas for our future. And […]
I’ve been thinking for a while about how to do justice to this blog, when a) I’m incredibly busy writing the next book, and b) I’m incredibly lazy. Then an idea struck me – actually, it was Roo that struck me (though I still maintain that it didn’t hurt. It was the surprise that made […]
So, by now one or two of you might have heard me mention my SECRET PLAN on Facebook. In fact, a few of you have already weaseled the details out of me! Let’s face it – I’m crap at keeping secrets, and I can’t keep this one any longer. So here it is: I’m coming […]
So, where were we? Oh, that’s right. We’d arrived at the top. Except, it wasn’t the top. It was the beginning of an immense, circuitous route which visited each of the five peaks of the sacred mountain; from the North Peak, where we were now, over the much-higher Central Peak, to the West Peak, where […]
Since I first saw a picture of Hua Shan (Hua means ‘Mount’), I was determined to go there. Because the picture I saw had to be seen to be believed… And try as I might, I could find very little online about the place. Only THIS weird website (which people still send me links to), […]