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I have been fortunate over the years to have enjoyed some exciting adventures. Click on the images to navigate to my adventures, or you could go out for a run. All options are good!

Best Bits.

A curated collection of my most popular blog posts, top adventure ideas, and reader favourites.

Your Local Seven Summits – a Challenge for 2024

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

Some Good Books I Have Read Recently

What a load of Sh**! 💩🚜⛺️🚲

Round the World on a Penny Farthing

Writing now, I must try to lay down the ambient background of slowness, heat and modest but constant pain. ⁣ Too loud and you will tire of the moaning. Too soft and you miss a critical dimension. ⁣ Plug away, plod away, drift away. Time does the rest, turning a walk into something richer, as cream changes to golden butter under duress. ⁣ Though individual days blend together, the result becomes an experience more vibrant than the mere cumulative act of trudging towards the next sit-down and sandwich. Travel long and slow and you learn to pay attention. ⁣ Time moves strangely on the road: at once fast and slow. ⁣ There is real time, told by tolling church towers and the sun’s relentless sweep. But there is also walking time, marked by the body and mind – tortured soles and souls – that pays scant heed to the chronological order of the universe. ⁣ Weeks fly, days pass, hours and minutes drag: just me, my violin and my shadow slowly crossing the landscape with Laurie. ⁣ ‘The days,’ he wrote, ‘merged into a continuous movement of sun and shadow, hunger and thirst, fatigue and sleep, all fused and welded into one coloured mass by the violent heat of that Spanish summer.’ ⁣ This is just one day of my life. But every day to come will depend fractionally on what I do today. I must live it as vividly as I can bear to do.⁣ ⁣ (An extract from my new book, ‘My Midsummer Morning’. Available for sale now – link in my bio. Thank you / Gracias!)⁣ ⁣ #MyMidsummerMorning⁣

Microadventures

What is Adventure?

Make a Camera from a Can

Rowing the Atlantic

Your Year of Microadventure

Buttercups

Motivation.

Tips, insights, and real-life stories to help you overcome fear and take on new challenges.

The Docking of the Banana Boat

TEDx Talk: You don’t need to travel far to find adventure – embrace local wildness.

Don’t Compromise Your Core Principles, But Don’t Fret the Direction the Path Leads You After That

Beginning – So Important

Not Very Glowing Book Reviews – Blackout Art

Embracing the Adventurous Spirit in Life and Leadership

Actionable Self Help

Your Local Seven Summits – a Challenge for 2024

Flabbiness

Coffee Outside, Somewhere New

30 Days – “Practice and Suck Less Challenge”

Don’t shirk the uncomfortable question.

Adventures.

Inspiring stories and practical advice from my major expeditions around the world.

Microadventure FAQs

How my Book became an Amazon Bestseller

A Rafting Microadventure

Mountain Bikes and Bothy Nights

Grab a Map, Close your Eyes, Point, Go

Kids Microadventure

Your Year of Microadventure

A Journey to the End of my Country

River Swim

Four Seasons of Microadventure

A Circular Journey

A Bicycle Challenge

Microadventures.

Easy, local adventure ideas to help busy people add more outdoor adventure to everyday life.

Travel local: What I learnt only exploring my 20-kilometer radius

Microadventure FAQs

How my Book became an Amazon Bestseller

A Rafting Microadventure

Mountain Bikes and Bothy Nights

Grab a Map, Close your Eyes, Point, Go

Kids Microadventure

Your Year of Microadventure

A Journey to the End of my Country

River Swim

Four Seasons of Microadventure

A Circular Journey

Shed Shouts.

Dip into the newsletter.

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Adventure + Purpose (and the Northern Lights)

Archives.

Browse 25 years of adventure and microadventure stories, writing, books, and ideas to inspire your own journeys and outdoor life.

Hong Kong Microadventure

BBC 6Music

Packing

120 marathons in 120 days Living Adventurously 34

How to run a marathon: 10 tips

Learning to See

I have Almost Earned my Reward

A step-by-step Series of Microadventure Challenges

Brendan Leonard

National Geographic Interview

Riaan Manser

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