That Adventurer was started in 2013 as a way to give people who love active travel a place to discover new adventures from hiking to biking, skiing to paddleboarding in Canada and Europe. It now gets over 300,000 views a month.
Growing up in the UK, my love for the outdoors quadrupled when I moved to Canada in 2017. Every weekend (and several evenings a week) was spent getting outside.
It’s true I can’t sit still and my husband says I’m like a puppy that needs its walk every day.
If you hate the idea of all-inclusive retreats where you’re sat on a sun lounger all day then That Adventurer is for you.
I share the best hikes, best bike routes, and active travel adventures across Canada and Europe and give you everything you need to know so that you can enjoy them too.
How That Adventurer Started
It started on a university ski trip where the dress-up theme was ‘Angry Birds’.
Fast forward a year and back at Warwick University we met up again and agreed to hitchhike from our university campus as far as possible in 48 hours for charity as one of our first dates.
We made it to Paris and the rest, as they say, is history.
We’ve always been adventurous souls individually and so together it perhaps wasn’t a surprise to those of us who knew us that we’d spend our years travelling around the world and embracing skiing, mountain biking, hiking and more.
Our first big trip together was after we graduated. We headed off to South America for three months. Hannah had started That Adventurer a few months before and while we were travelling she continued to upload blog posts of everything we got up to.
After South America, we spend about two years living in London where we found we were escaping the city pretty much every weekend for outdoor adventures and European city breaks.
One of our first conversations was about other countries we’d each like to live in and Canada was a common choice.
So, during our time in London, we set about making that happen.
The Canada Move
In 2017, with our IEC visa for Canada in hand, we set off to Canada for what we told our parents would be “just two years”.
We started in Toronto where we converted a white van into our home for 5 months and our adventure vehicle for the next six years of living in Canada.
We then travelled across the USA for three months, visiting National Parks and cities, before settling in Vancouver for the next 6 years.
We loved our lives in Canada where we were situated between the ocean and the mountains and surrounded by forests.
We bought an apartment in the ski resort of Sun Peaks (you can rent it here!) and continued to embrace adventure. We learned to mountain bike, got a lot better at skiing, and hiked and hiked all over BC.
Hannah in particular would’ve loved to stay in Vancouver forever.
In September 2022, we sold everything we owned (again) and packed up our bags to head back to Europe.
But we’re not done travelling yet.
2023: The Year of Travel
2022/23 is our year of travel where we’re trying out new cities and countries to see where we might want to live for good.
So far we’ve explored Tromsø where we celebrated our 10th anniversary by getting married on a beach, in November, in the Arctic and in a city we’d never been to before, and the Lofoten Islands in winter.
January to March 2023 will see us exploring Scotland and who knows where we’ll end up after that?!
On That Adventurer, you’ll find photography and writing to light up your wanderlust. We’ll also pull together honest reviews and guides to restaurants, experiences, and hotels we use along the way. Oh, and plenty of guides full of tips we’ve learned (probably the hard way) to help you get the most out of your trip.
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Happy Adventuring!