TT Invictus Games Foundation Tham’s company in Borneo The Sandakan Death Marches took place during the last months of World War Two on the island of Borneo where over two and a half thousand Australian and British Prisoners of War were being held by the Japanese. The men had been moved to the island (where
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TT website Oracle’s website There can’t be many place names more evocative of wilderness than the Sahara. As a kid looking at the pages of my parents atlases the name evoked images of camel trains, French foreign legion forts and Tuareg warriors swathed in yards of cloth. These were the images in my mind as
Well, here we are at the end of another year and what a cracker it’s been here at Come walk with me UK. We have spent 2023 exploring walks across the world, leading D of E groups, trekking the long distance trails of Scotland and adventuring in new destinations. We couldn’t have done it without
Having walked the West Highland Way with a Thistle Trekking team last week, I had decided to try and continue along the Great Glen Way to Inverness before meeting another team to walk the Affric Kintail Way. It made sense to me, linked the two routes nicely, and would allow me a little time to
Scotland is a country that has no shortage of spectacular scenery and breathtaking long distance footpaths. I have been very fortunate over the last few years to have spent a lot of time leading on the West Highland Way for Thistle Trekking and it is a true beauty, but having recently spent three days walking
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here at Come walk with me UK we hope that 2023 has started with a bang and that the plans you have for the New Year (we don’t call them resolutions anymore) are pointing towards an exciting and productive twelve months. We are really looking forward to a busy time after a
El Chalten styles itself as the walking capital of Argentina, a title that was just too enticing to resist, so after our epic Torres del Paine trek we headed to this beautiful, mountain ringed town via the very efficient cross-border coach. The town has something of a Wild West feel to it with only the
There are some places in the world that bear in their name the unmistakable tang of adventure. The Congo, Borneo, the Himalayas are amongst them, but, for me, ever since a teenage reading of Bruce Chatwin’s seminal book, Patagonia has been at the top of the list. It’s the whole “end of the world” feel
I am sat perched on a rock under a star spangled African sky, the air is cool now the sun has dropped behind the distant range of hills separated by an acacia studded red earth plain. I can see the flickering tongues of flame of the campfire and somewhere in the distance I can hear
I am pretty sure that around this time of year every year I write a post musing on the infrequency of my blog updates and here, in 2022, we are again. We have entered the “silly season” where life in the outdoor industry is manic…..but we love manic! Covid was a difficult time for the
