Andy Higgs

Andy Higgs

I know what it's like to go from being a crazy backpacker without a care in the world, via being a vaguely sensible parent to being an adventurer once more. In other words, evolving into a Grown-up Traveller. Like everyone else, I love to travel, have visited a lot of countries and all that but my big thing is Africa. I also own and run The Grown-up Travel Company as a travel designer creating personalised African itineraries for experienced adventurers

Why you owe it to yourself to try downhill biking

Image (c) Carl-Martin Glos Downhill biking, according to Wikipedia, is “a time trial mountain biking event held on a course with a net decrease in elevation”. Downhill biking, according to me, is the insanely fun pastime of essentially throwing yourself off ski slopes…