by admin | May 19, 2016 | Cycling adventures, Microadventure, Mindset & Psychology, Resources and Links, Running Adventures, Small Adventures, Swimming adventures, Walking Adventures
I’m staring at a picture of a girl on her first bicycle tour. Her wayward hair is kept only slightly in check by a helmet perched awkwardly on her head. Her arms, now sun-kissed after a few months on the road lead down to legs muscles, now slightly tighter than they...
by admin | Feb 28, 2016 | Cycling adventures, Mindset & Psychology, Walking Adventures
In the 14 days that have passed since clambering over my back fence-gate in Brixton, London I have learnt, loved and lost. Mostly I have lost a pair of gloves and the skin on the souls of my feet, but I have lost all the same. Sympathy please. WHAT ON EARTH AM I...
by admin | Feb 12, 2016 | Walking Adventures
The small hand is on the backpack, the big hand is on the sleeping bag, and by my reckoning that makes it a quarter to Adventure O’ Clock. Now that the groundwork’s been laid, it’s time to get on down to the nitty gritty. If you’ve no idea what in the name of...
by admin | Jan 18, 2016 | Small Adventures, Walking Adventures
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” Gandalf the Grey wasn’t messing when he laid down those words to our man Frodo at...