BEHIND THE JOURNEYS

Meet the travellers.

We’re Darrell, Gilly, Barney and Betty. These are our journeys, photographs and stories from a life spent exploring.

Darrell

Born and raised as a northerner, yet house-trained as a southerner. This lad gets his kicks from wild terrain, petrolhead antics, computers, real ale and generally scouring the internet for interesting bits and pieces.

Favourite foods: Hot dinner sandwiches—especially lasagne and tomato sauce between white bread—pesto pasta, gourmet hot dogs, and medium-hot British-style Indian restaurant curries.
Favourite films: The ’Burbs, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Smokey and the Bandit, The Big Lebowski, Old School, Napoleon Dynamite and The Gumball Rally.

Gilly

Born and raised as a southerner, yet now educated in important northern ways such as eating massive plates of greasy dinner quickly, lower expectations of cleanliness, and tortuous hill climbing.

Favourite foods: Hummus with everything, lobster thermidor, sandwiches with absurd amounts of filling, filet mignon steak and Mexican sausage tortilla wraps.
Favourite films: Pride and Prejudice, Moulin Rouge, Sense and Sensibility, Much Ado About Nothing and You’ve Got Mail.

Barney

This little bear has been our travel companion since 2012. You wouldn’t think this fluffy spaniel would be a hardy long-distance hiker and wild camper, but he’s made of stern stuff and makes all of our trips more enjoyable being part of our company.

Favourite foods: Well, everything really—with the surprising exception of dark crab meat.
Favourite films: Lassie, Beethoven, Turner & Hooch, 101 Dalmatians, Benji and Big Trouble in Little China.

Betty

This cutesy fluff ball is the newest addition to our travelling contingent, although we haven’t taken her on any big adventures as yet, and she’s a bit of a homebird. But she likes wild walks and has done a wild camp, so we reckon she’s ready for action!

Favourite foods: Well, everything really. Dogs are not fussy. Maybe mash is her absolute fave!
Favourite TV series: Planet Earth, Great British Bake Off and Cash in the Attic.

A walker taking a break above the lakes and ridges of the Quiraing on Skye

THE STORY OF MULTICOLOUREDPLANET

A world of memories. One place to keep them.

multicolouredplanet brings together the travels and adventures that we, and some of our friends, have had the pleasure of experiencing around the world.

It began as a collection of stories on grundlefly.com and grew into multicolouredplanet. Hundreds—if not thousands—of hours have gone into collecting the words, photographs and films here. It’s our way of keeping those memories in one place.

We hope these stories give you a few ideas and inspire you to get out there and have some adventures of your own.

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