Hit the North

This deep-dive regional travel blog draws on my expertise as a destination expert, based in Chester. With the focus on UK staycations still prominent, I’ll be highlighting the most interesting new travel projects, the hidden-gem boltholes, and offering my expert-knowledge tips on what to do around the region I live in and know so well. Sign up to my new monthly newsletter from the bottom of the Home Page, or in the menu bar under Newsletter.

And expect new, offbeat and insider-secret travel news and tips from:

  • Chester and Cheshire
  • Liverpool and Manchester
  • North Wales and the wider area
  • The Lake District and Lancashire
  • Wider content exploring the North of England

Walking Offa’s Dyke Path National Trail as it marks its 50-year anniversary

April 5, 2021

This year marks 50 years of the Offa’s Dyke Path National Trail. There are local walking festivals to look out for and a revamped visitor centre in the Welsh border town of Knighton to open later this summer. An ITV series about the Path, Wonders of the Border, will be shown… Read more

Download my new Haunted Chester audio tour — now available via VoiceMap

March 5, 2021

My lockdown project is complete. I used quieter time over the last few months to tinker away at a creative project, creating a new audio tour to my home city of Chester. The result is Haunted Chester, a 60-minute circular walking trail based on the tours I lead for Chester… Read more

Ten wonderful Welsh break to book as travel opens up from mid April

February 26, 2021

Travel is starting to open up. The post-Covid road map put forward by the Westminster Government earlier this week provisionally allows for self-catering breaks in England from April 12. The Welsh Government has previously stated its hopes for staycation breaks in Wales around Easter. Cue the scramble of tourism operators… Read more