Category: Living Adventurously
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Win a Free Pair of Keen Sandals
I’ve got a pair of Keen sandals to give away for free on my Facebook Page. The sandals in question are called ‘Uneek‘ (because the entire top half of them is made from just two pieces of cord) so to win the sandals you have to come up with the best “unique” adventure idea you…
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Cycling to the Sea – Guest Blog by Anna Hughes
A guest blog today from Anna Hughes who was one of the speakers at the Cycle Touring Festival last month and who spent two months cycling around the coast of Britain. [divide] Cycling to the Sea – Guest Blog by Anna Hughes Cycling to the sea is my favourite kind of ‘micro-adventure’; there’s something special…
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What Should Expeditions Expect in Return for Supporting a Charity?
I had an email recently asking me about using an expedition to fundraise for a charity and what one might expect from that charity in exchange. I’ve changed the wording of the original question and embellished my reply a little but the gist of it is published below. Thoughts welcome. What Should Expeditions Expect…
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Photography Competition Winners – 2015 Cycle Touring Festival
At last week’s inaugural Cycle Touring Festival, we ran a photo competition. All entries were from attendees and speakers. The competition was kindly sponsored by Pannier.cc. It’s a new website for travelling cyclists run by Stefan Amato and well worth a look. Without further ado, here are the photos… [divide] Commended Photos Crossing the Great…
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“Normal life” is Full of Routines But So is Cycling Around the World (and that’s no bad thing)
This time last year I was having the time of my life, pedalling across South Korea. Now, I am back in the UK and back in a normal job. Every morning, I get up at the same time, put the kettle on, eat my breakfast, make a packed lunch and cycle to work. Every afternoon,…
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Is Crowd Funding an Acceptable Way to Pay for an Expedition?
Is “crowd funding” a great new way to kick start expeditions? Or is it just asking other people to pay for your holiday? Expeditions can be expensive. Although I personally advocate cheap adventures (like my friends Tom and Al do) and almost always advise people not to bother trying to get that elusive sponsorship deal,…
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Deep South: Our Final Photos from Cycling Around the World
This is the last set of photographs from our round-the-world bike trip and they are some of my favourites from one of the most memorable legs of the journey: the American Deep South. Texas was our third biggest “country” with more remote stretches than anywhere else in the world that we cycled through. It’s not…
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How to Wash on a Cycle Tour (and other questions answered)
Hi Tim. Clearly you have done a lot of touring and adventuring, and as a newbie to the whole thing I just have a bunch of questions I’d love to ask a veteran. If you have a little time on your hands for a little email back and forth please let me know. I’d love…
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Proof That Anyone Can Cross a Desert
I started this blog six years ago to encourage people to go on adventures and help them where I can. People email me questions all the time. I write back to every single one but many never even reply to say thanks. So it was supremely gratifying to receive an email the other day from…
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Interview with Film Maker Tom Allen
Kickstarter is a very successful new website which helps people fund projects. Adventurers Leon McCarron and Tom Allen recently completed two expeditions and are now using Kickstarter to raise the money for making films from the trips. Click the link to see more about their project – A Tale of Two Rivers – or read…
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Hands up if you’re running a mile a day
At the beginning of this year, Tim and I agreed to run the equivalent of a mile for every day of 2015. We invited people to join us and we were really pleased that several people did. So how’s it going? We started off on 1 January with heavy legs and unwilling minds. Our bodies…
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New eBooks Launched
I’m very pleased to announce that I have launched a series of new ebooks today including: How To Cross A Desert How To Cycle Around The World How To Climb An Unclimbed Mountain How To Get To The North Pole [one_half] [/one_half] [one_half_last] [/one_half_last] They are based on chapters from my paperback ‘How to Get…