Lowri Davies

With the events of the previous week never far from my mind, I drove over some absolutely spectacular mountain passes in convoy with fellow Brit Jenny Chrimes. We made it to Ivrea in the wee hours and found ourselves driving around Ivrea city centre searching for a slalom course, with the river as our only navigational [...]

I realise that it has been some time since I updated this blog. That’s partly because I have been putting most of my recent adventures on the FlowFree blog; but also because I have been too busy doing stuff to write about doing stuff! If you want executive summary: coaching, NSR, coaching, snowboarding, shenanigans, coaching, Level [...]

For the past couple of weeks we’ve had consistent rain in North Wales which has kept the rivers at lovely levels, but last night’s rain was fairly epic. All across North Wales people woke to find rivers over their banks, towns flooded and roads closed. My Mum was unable to get work and my brother [...]

Welcome to Norway – Photo: Nick Horwood In celebration of finishing Uni forever, I’ve buggered off to Norway. As the Newcastle ferry was cancelled last year, Nick Horwood, my van and I had to mission the drive from Dunkerque through France, Belgium,  Holland and Denmark to get a ferry to Norway. At the ferry port [...]

With Aberystwyth’s sea breeze and salty air we rarely have heavy snow here; and with reports of snow days from all over the country we were starting to get jealous.  Sitting in a lecture as a blizzard caked campus in a thick helping of the fun stuff, I began to get excited. I practically skipped [...]

It was my first time at Wet West Paddlefest. I’d heard a lot about it but never been able to make it before, so was excited to find myself in the country with nothing clashing? in the diary. Hucking? off the Falls of Falloch before breakfast -? Photo: Tom Laws Tom Laws on the Falls [...]

During the six weeks I have been in the French Alps, I have seen an awful lot of carnage. At first it was the usual Uni groups with lost kit and hospital trips gallore – particularly with the high water levels. But there seems to have been a second wave of carnage now that the [...]