Tag: Lists

  • List of Expedition Grants in 2017

    I try to keep an up to date list of every expedition grant, adventure scholarship and challenge bursary available in the UK. My latest list is published in brief below and full details can be found on my Sponsorship Resources page. It’s hard to keep track of them all though so I’d appreciate any help…

  • 34 Things I Got Asked About in 2016

    I get emails from people asking for help with something adventure related all the time. It’s one of the best things about running this website. I’m often struck by the breadth of topics that get covered and a cursory look back through some of the messages I’ve received this year really highlights that. Here’s a…

  • How To Get Ideas and Inspiration For An Adventure

    Some people have a very clear idea of the adventure they want to have and a specific plan for achieving it. Many others just have an urge to do something but are not clear what. This article will help the latter. After a a decade of going on expeditions and two decades of reading about…

  • 16 Short Cycling Trip Ideas from the UK

    At last weekend’s Cycle Touring Festival, Laura led an impromptu discussion about people’s favourite shorter cycling routes: the best places for a week or so’s pedalling, mostly starting from the UK or in Europe. Here’s the top 16 from the session (special thanks to Anup for typing them up for us!): Dubrovnik, Croatia to Venice, Italy Geneva,…

  • 5 Things We Miss About Home

    We’ve now been away for well over a year. Life on the road is generally pretty sweet and we love the freedom from responsibility it affords. However, there are one or two things we’re looking forward to getting back to in a few weeks’ time. In no particular order, here are the things we miss…

  • 4 Easy Adventure Ideas That Anyone Can Try

    “Adventurers” are always writing articles/stories and giving talks with the ostensible aim of motivating people to get out and do stuff for themselves. But the problems raised in response are often the same: people don’t where to start and they don’t have the time/money/expertise to get going. These are the real hurdles that any credible…

  • The Top 5 Expedition Websites

    There is widespread consensus amongst the wisest and most informed members of the adventure community about the one website that stands head and shoulders above all others and I remain grateful for their recognition. However, here are five other worthy adversaries to this website which I’d recommend to anyone interested in the world of expeditions…

  • What are the Ocean’s Seven?

    I just watched a documentary about Steve Redmond completing the Ocean’s Seven and thought it was about time I talked about them on my blog… The Seven Summits are the highest mountains on each of the seven continents. The Ocean’s Seven is a similar list and challenge for long distance swimmers rather than mountaineers: a…

  • 10 Reasons Not to Grow an Expedition Beard

    The last time I shaved was this time last year, shortly before setting off on my bike to cycle around the world. I now have a large, surprisingly ginger beard on my face. Frankly, I would not recommend it. Here are my top ten reasons why… [divide] 10 Reasons Not to Grow an Expedition Beard…

  • The 10 Best Adventurer-Bloggers

    There are adventurers (think: Fiennes, Ousland, Grylls). And there are bloggers (think: well, think of someone who blogs a lot). And then are: Adventurer-Bloggers. This is a term I just made up but hopefully it’s self explanatory: people who both go on expeditions and spend time writing about them. The list below is really just…

  • On being a female traveller

    We live in the twenty first century, and yet chauvinism, misogyny and paternalistic attitudes towards women are still alive and kicking. Travelling throws these into sharp relief, as it means stepping outside the bubble we create for ourselves with the familiar attitudes of friends and family, and encountering new people and sometimes challenging opinions. The…

  • Ten things I know about long distance cycle touring

    1) It’s not that difficult, and gets easier Before we left the UK, many people asked what training we were doing. Although we cycled most days in and around London, during the final few weeks before departure, training largely consisted of eating and drinking too much, watching DVDs and driving up and down the M6…