Good fun! Anyway, on to business. Here are some things I’d like to share with you today: (with apologies to reader Nikos who emailed me to say, quite rightly, that I include far too many links each ti...
When I decided to spend a whole year exploring the small map I live on, I hoped it would help me slow down, pay attention, discover new places and learn more about nature. Each week I explored a singl...
I love this explanation, by Morgan Hite, of the difficulties of returning home from adventures. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suff......
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Hi again, The mornings are getting lighter, birds are singing again, and life feels good. Now that the dust has settled from launching my book, Local (did I mention that I’d written a book…? 😉) I’m a...
“My thoughts first turned to adventure 10,500 days ago today. The idea of adventure for me at first was simple and uncomplicated. It was the prospect of excitement, fun, and novelty that were pulling....
Hi again, Here are some things I’d like to share with you today: I’m challenging people to climb the 7 Summits of their neighbourhood this year. Does that sound like a fun challenge? Here’s how to do....
In the journey of life, we often find ourselves at crossroads, contemplating the path less traveled versus the familiar road. Drawing parallels from a life dedicated to adventure, we can extract profo...
I am a total sucker for self help books. I love trying to improve and optimise my life. I’ve even written one myself (and a newsletter series about living more adventurously). There are a few problem....
I enjoy compiling reading lists for people to discover, such as these recommendations of good adventure books, sorted by categories. And every so often I share online this photo of great adventure boo...
My biggest surprise when writing Local was how fascinated I became with food. The impact it has on our active physical health is something I’ve been interested in for ages – as I guess are most people...
‘Often it is the commonplace things, the locally abundant, the places and the wildlife on our very doorstep that we take for granted, that slip through our fingers.’ So writes the Common Ground websit...
Even a short flight from the UK to Spain generates 0.5 metric tons CO2 equivalent. You can offset that from as little as €22.50 / £19.50. ...
I pasted a list of all the good books I’ve read over the past 4 years into Chat GPT and asked it for recommendations for other books I might enjoy. It offered up quite a number that I had already rea....
Depending on what big thing is happening in your world right now, allow me to wish you a Happy New Year / Happy New Lockdown / Happy New President… My mission for this year is to ask whether a single....
I’m nervous about this book as it is a big shift away from my usual writing about adventures and travel. It’s a book about nature and paying attention. It has some rants about land use and litter, acc...
I didn’t want to hold the others up. I didn’t want to slow down our progress. We had miles to go until we sleep, and I didn’t want to be that annoying one faffing around with my kit. And so now I was....