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.
My latest adventure was a RYA Level 1 sailing course – that is, a sailing course for an absolute beginner and this time I really am an absolute beginner. I finished my climbing course on Friday night and first thing on Saturday morning, I was heading down to the harbour. I’ve lived within half an… More A Bear in a Boat: my RYA Level 1 sailing course
Recently I did an Adult Beginners Climbing course. I’m not technically a climbing beginner. I was taught to belay twelve years ago – caving-style, using an Italian hitch rather than climbing-style, using a belay plate, but even that came only a year or two later. I was taught all the essential knots – that is,… More ABC: Adult Beginners Climbing
The new tent is here! It came astonishingly quickly – less than forty-eight hours between ordering online to it popping through the door. New kit is always exciting, even if it’s only a cheap tent. I have a one-man tent I take to Iceland every summer which has to be small enough to fit in… More The new tent
This is my tent. It’s a Eurohike 225 TS which my grandad gave me for my fifteenth or sixteenth birthday, which makes it fourteen or fifteen years old. It’s in more or less perfect condition and up until a year ago, even the pegs were perfect. Last year, my idiot Rangers managed to mix their… More The quest for a new tent
I got home from Edinburgh, having travelled by overnight train, at 10am last Friday. Before 2pm, I was out again, on my way to Wellies & Wristbands 2015. This was by far the biggest event I’ve ever been to – probably the biggest event anyone in my district has been to. I heard there were… More Our weekend at Wellies & Wristbands 2015