Category: Living Adventurously
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Adventure from the Front Door – Guest Blog: James Bowthorpe
James Bowthorpe is famous for breaking the speed record for cycling around the world and for hitting a wombat whilst doing so. He also happens to be raising a lot of money and awareness for a cause important to him and is a nice guy to boot. I met him in the pub last week…
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Angry Young Man – Guest Blog: Julian Sayarer (This Is Not For Charity)
I enjoyed following Julian Sayarer’s cycle around the world – This Is Not For Charity – and his wonderful writing from the comfort of my home last year. I was thrilled and disheartened in equal measure to first see him break the world record and then risk having his words and messages lost in the…
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How times change
I ran 30 miles along the Northern Line the other day. I’d run that far once before and didn’t really think anything of it the morning I set off, in part because I didn’t know how far it would be but then I also didn’t think much of it afterwards. At school, “long distance” running…
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Walking to Work… My Next Challenge by Ewan Laurie
This is the first in what I hope will be a long line of a new feature entitled ‘My Next Challenge’. Each month we’ll have a new person tell us about an upcoming adventure – what they’re doing, why they’re doing it, what they’re worried about and why they’re excited. I first met Ewan when…
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Commute with Gusto! – Everyday Adventure #3
Enjoying the pungent aroma of a fellow Tube rider’s sweaty armpit thrust across your face. Sat in static traffic so long that the radio starts repeating songs you heard earlier. Watching your breath as you shiver waiting for a bus that should have been here, ooh, a good half hour ago now. Commuting is a…
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Tell me, where did you sleep last night?
I’m quite excited about my plan for this evening’s Everyday Adventure. I wish I could tell you what it is but I can’t. Not just just yet, anyway. If I pull it off then I promise to add it in the comments box tomorrow morning. But anyway, this isn’t about me. It’s about you… How…
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£100 – An expedition on a budget
I set off today with a rucksack and a hundred pounds to have an adventure. Too often we restrict ourselves, hold back on our dreams or rein in our aspirations with the perceived constraints of the world – time, commitments, lack of expertise or knowledge, money. I, like everyone else, fall foul of this on…
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A Simple Democratic Corporate Life – Six of the Best, January 2010
Here are some blog entries from other peoples’ websites that I have enjoyed or got something from over the last month and think that you might too. Have a look and vote for the ones you like. Congratulations to Alastair Humphreys whose article ‘Please stand on the right (if you are a loser)‘ got the…
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Así Es La Vida (Part Two) – Guest Blog: Andy Ruck
My friend Andy Ruck has just had his first book – Así Es La Vida – published and has very kindly offered me an extract for this website. The first instalment went up last week and the second is below. Moments later a police truck screeched to a halt in the dust and out jumped Pedro Ortiz, a…
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What would you do with a hundred pounds?
A generous relative gave me a £100 cheque for Christmas. If you follow this site much then you’ll know that money is not my greatest asset at the moment and thus I didn’t feel I could blow the cash on a frivolity. Equally, I hate watching gifted money seep into daily life, groceries and bills.…