Adventures covers a lot, from a spa at home to glamping to making masks to big adventures like paragliding, kayaking and dogsledding.
Broadly, my adventures fall under the headings of On the Water, On the Ground, On the Rocks and In the Snow so do take a scroll or look at my top menu to find your favourite adventurous activity. Other than bungee jumping, if you can think of it I’ve probably tried it.
Last year I was briefly employed as an outdoor activity instructor. I didn’t actually do any teaching but I was paid for two days of training to enlarge my repertoire from just archery and fencing. The bit of training I was most excited about was climbing. I used to climb a bit. When I was… More Stay At Home Storytelling: learning to boulder
A few weeks ago, I did a post on my DofE practice expedition and this is the real thing. The expedition is both the most dreaded and the best known of all the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award components. As a general rule, I think it’s the last thing to get done. The typical vision of… More Stay At Home Storytelling: My DofE Bronze expedition
I considered going to the Altitude Festival this year – for obvious reasons, it’s a good thing I never quite made up my mind to do it. There’s nothing seasonal about this but since we can’t travel at the moment, let’s relive old travel stories. This is Altitude 2010, my first ever visit to the… More Stay At Home Storytelling: my first snowsport holiday
Last June, on my way to my camping weekend in north Devon, I bought an inflatable kayak from the the magical middle aisle at Lidl. I didn’t try it out in Devon; I have enough sense to recognise that water wild and fierce enough for surfing isn’t going to be good for inflatable kayaking and… More Stay At Home Storytelling: how to set out to sea in an inflatable kayak
While I was writing about my camp at home over Easter, I wrote in a bit more detail about all my cooking and eating stuff – enough that I realised it should go in its own post. This is that post. This is my stove. It’s a really small basic screw-on gas stove with little… More Stay At Home Storytelling: My camp kitchen
Every year I swear that this will be the year I do something adventurous and new at least once a month. Well, that’s not happening this year. It’s April 27th when this post is published but it’s March 29th when I’m writing it. Are we still in lockdown? Probably. However, last year I did make… More Stay At Home Storytelling: A Segway forest adventure
I’ll be going back to my tales of the past soon enough but today we’re going right to the present, right to my life in isolation. There’s stuff going on around here, stuff I don’t want to talk about on the blog, but around the stuff, I’m not actually minding isolation too much. I’m working from… More Stay At Home Storytelling: Camping at Home
I was a caver at university. Have I mentioned that? Well, in these isolated days of little new material for travel and adventure blogs, I thought I’d show you my SRT kit. Sometimes you need to climb up or down a rope. Big caves in mountain ranges across Europe make this, plus several miles of… More Stay At Home Storytelling: meet my SRT kit
In 2019, I did a virtual swimming challenge every month. 2.5km or 100 lengths of a standard pool every month and double that in June and October. December was going ok. I’d done 40 lengths before I went to York and I wanted to do another chunk while I was there because I like to… More When a 50m pool isn’t a 50m pool
This isn’t going to become a blog about fitness and exercise. But there is a bit of a crossover between travel and adventure and exercise – see the existence of Outdoor Fitness magazine.Swimming isn’t technically outdoors, not how I do it, but in light of watersports, I think it’s in the spirit. Couch to 5K… More Swimming, adventure and fitness