Hi again,

Here are a few things I’d like to share with you today, a round-up of what you guys have been busy with, and a dip into the newsletter archives right down at the bottom… 👇

• 🇯🇵 Newsletter: My current favourite newsletter is a ‘pop-up’, short-lived one from Craig Mod about walking through Japan called ‘Where Are All the Nightingales?’.
• 🚀 Sad news: I’m sorry to hear that astronaut Michael Collins has died. He was my ‘favourite’ of the Apollo astronauts (I picked him in my book of Great Adventurers), and his book is brilliant.
  
• ☃️ Article: The ‘emotions grid’; a monitoring system devised by a psychologist to help explorer Ben Saunders share his emotions more accurately and honestly while on his first major solo expedition. Also good: Ben’s advice on swapping isolation for civilisation after lockdown (or after an expedition).
  
• 🌓 Travel: I am halfway through the year of my Single Map project, yet have barely skimmed the surface of what lies on one map (26 squares out of 400 so far). Dip into what I’ve seen so far.
  
• 😀 Twitter Travel: Excellent examples of story-telling on Twitter: A man going in search of the tree he can see from his window; hitch-hiking from the Netherlands to South Africa; and a glorious ‘little-known’ island nation.
• 👙 Swim: The Outdoor Swimming Society is encouraging everyone to get involved in one big Northern Hemisphere celebration of midsummer.
  
• 🚴🏿 Nomad: A short film about cycling and belonging. “I’m not from here. I’m not from there. I’m from everywhere. And I belong there.” – Erick Cedeño

And some quick snippets… 👇

• ✂️ Lights at sea: a map of all the world’s lighthouses. I found this pleasing and it made me yearn to be out on a boat at sea in the dark.
  
• ✂️ In my shed I work standing up all day. I recommend you give it a go. It could be one of the most important things you do for your health.
• ✂️ Illusory Photographs of Mountain Landscapes Are Flipped 90 Degrees to Reveal Human-Like Profiles.

❓Can I help you? Let me know if you have a relevant project that my readers would appreciate. Here’s what you guys have been up to recently… 👇

• ❤️ Bas has developed a new app for cycle tourists, is a combination of Warmshowers and iOverlander.. Check it out here.
• ❤️ Bill has written a travel memoir called Gone Viking: A Travel Saga (8 years trekking the northern hemisphere in the wake of Scandinavian explorers).
• ❤️ Ben has invented a small lightweight attachment that can turn a trekking pole (or even a stick) into a decent fishing rod.