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Clare is firmly back on the end of the phone and tip-tapping away at emails; we’re keen as mustard to tell you about what we are running on the river and to start planning canoe adventures with you: Pleasecalloremailto start the process of making a booking – we politely ask that you don’t come and…

so you must be out canoeing all the time right? … are words I hear often when greeting new arrivals at the canoe office … but this is actually quite far from the truth.  Not because I don’t want to go canoeing – that would be weird. I absolutely love canoeing and being on and…

Looking ahead to safer, warmer days to come . . . Dan has been a pal of ours for yonks – he writes and publishes the MOST useful books for adventuring types, sort of like an underground lonely-planet for the cool kids. His heart is in Wales having grown up right here in the Wye…

We are so lucky to live where we do. For us and many others this has been a familiar refrain over the last year. As the world around has closed down, I think it is fair to say that most people have felt an increasing yearning to reach out into it, to touch the bark…

when your friends get published . . . Matthew has been a pal of ours since forever; he has been there through important moments in our lives like felling the Larch to start the building process at Larchwood and teaching Aubrey how to use a chainsaw (scary!) . . . and this year he got…

It’s the 1st May 2017 and it’s around 7pm, a busy day on the canoes being the first May bank holiday Monday… unbeknown to any of us (including himself) Aubrey had broken his thumb at around 9am whilst unloading canoes at Glasbury beach, it was my (Clare) birthday and altogether quite a hectic Monday had…

game face . . . Clare is firmly back on the end of the phone and tip-tapping away at emails; we’re keen as mustard to tell you about what we are running on the river and to start planning canoe adventures with you: Pleasecalloremailto start the process of making a booking – we politely ask…

This is for all those people out there without a dad… Maybe he is on the other side of the world, maybe you have never met him or maybe as in my case, there is no way you will ever see him as he is no-more. I lost my father when I was six years…

how do we translate our business eco-credentials into our everyday personal lives? I guess this is kind of a sequel to my last non-covid-related news post – news . . . as well as a follow-on it’s me finally getting around to putting pen to paper (so to speak) about a number of small but mighty products…

covid-19 is a game-changer … and to be honest, we got game! so what happens now?! Our current priorities are . . . The wellbeing of our employees and crew of freelance instructors and addressing their personal concerns directly Focusing on what we know NOW and being very cautious about the coming weeks and months…

We are still in lockdown here in Wales but starting to tentatively make draft plans for re-opening whilst watching/waiting for updated guidance and clarity from both Westminster but more importantly for us from Welsh Government.  The past couple of months have been truly bonkers. One positive to take from lockdown is the gift of a…

an ode to the #dreamteam – #haynavy looses long-standing dream-team member to the marines . . . Next week we concede One-nil to the Royal Marines as Felix heads off as a recruit on his next, most ambitious adventure yet. No farewell dinner or barbeque, no hugs and pats on the back… just a relatively…