Bikepacking, Scotland
Adventure leader Rosie Baxendine has quit her office job and become a full-time bikepacking guide (like backpacking, but on a bike). Many of her trips are women-only, such as the two-day explorations of Perthshire, Lothian or the Borders. Others have a theme, such as a north-east trip in search of puffins, a pedal-powered distillery tour or a west coast island adventure. All involve wild camping and are designed to introduce people to bikepacking, so no experience is needed, kit can be provided, and distances are a manageable 28 miles a day. Rosie also offers e-bikepacking tours, accessible trips on adaptive bikes and bespoke adventures.
£220 for a two-day trip, next departure 23 April, rosiebaxendine.com
Wild journey into Devon
Active England is adding to its walking, cycling and swimming trips this year, with new nature tours around Devon. The tours are packed with outdoor yoga, seashore foraging, wild swimming, forest bathing and paddleboarding. The wildlife tours also involve walking, swimming and foraging, plus boat trips, which are focused on encounters with the local otters, beavers, seals, peregrine falcons and Dartmoor ponies. Activities aside, there is plenty of time for riverside picnics and pints at historic pubs, plus lunch at Riverford Field Kitchen, winetasting at Sharpham Estate and evenings round the campfire. Guests stay in cosy three-star hotels.
Four days’ B&B from £849 or six days’ from £1,049, 1 April to 31 October, activeenglandtours.com
Sail around the UK coast
Skipper Paul and first mate Qiao are sailing Snark, their modern Thames barge, around the UK this summer – and you’re invited aboard. The 2,000-mile, three-month voyage is being split into 10 legs of five to nine days, so people can sign up for a section that suits them. The circumnavigation starts and ends in Plymouth, calling at the four nations’ capitals and historic ports along the way. No sailing experience is required, but guests will be shown the ropes and encouraged to pitch in – while still having plenty of time for wildlife-watching, photography and a little sea swimming and rowing. There’s also a working crew discount for those with sailing experience (one per trip).
From £1,231 for seven nights all-inclusive, 1 June to 13 September, snark.limited
Run across Wales
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