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Category Archives: Humour
Mum’s gone to Iceland.
No, she hasn’t really.
But I am off to Iceland tomorrow. Not the nasty frozen food shop, but the land of the now-famous volcano.
And I can’t wait! I’m really excited about this expedition. Jumping around with excitement.
I had worried about the prospect of being on top of a remote glacier far from a TV with England [...]
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Pecha Kucha: the M25 by foot
I recently arranged a fundraising event for Hope and Homes for Children.
The idea was simple: each speaker would have 20 slides, which scroll after just 20 seconds. This gives the speaker a mere 6 minutes and 40 seconds to speak. It is a fast, furious, fiendishly difficult speaking format that results in a fun, unusual, [...]
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Bike crash video
A wonderful zen-like simplicity to this 6 second long piece of gratuitous wincing.
Walking a lap of the M25
As soon as the idea formed I knew it would be an adventure. Not a massive adventure. But that was fine. I was not looking for that. I wanted something small. I wanted a micro adventure. I recruited friend and fellow adventurer Ron Lilwall to accompany me, we decided to make a film of our [...]
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Wild, wonderful places to sleep
In praise of the humble bivvy bag: some of the stupid (yet wonderfully memorable and uplifting) open air places I have slept.
- On a swimming platform out in the bay in San Sebastian
- On the terraces of Biarritz rugby stadium (a bit of fence climbing required here!)
- In a (new) sewage pipe in Turkey and [...]
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War zone road trip
Here is a brilliant clip from my mate’s crazy motorcycle journey – riding through a war zone in Afghanistan. A ride done for the very best of motives: “for the hell of it”.
Warning – if you don’t like swearing, don’t watch this clip. (If you don’t approve of swearing then you probably wouldn’t want to [...]
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Beyond the Pole
The last couple of weeks on this blog have become a bit self-helpy, wishy-washy. So it’s time today to get back to the world of expeditions.
One of the deep frustrations with working in this sphere is the choking algae of novelty projects, celebrities grabbing their 10-minutes of manliness and -true story- people emailing to ask [...]
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A day in the life of an Author / Adventurer / Motivational Speaker / Big Kid
An insight into my life:
Write India book and eat biscuits on train.
Arrive at speaking venue. Find toilets to get changed in. (Disabled ones are better: bigger and rarely used, therefore nice and clean)
Emerge looking like Bond.
Tuck into free swanky meal at International Business Forum. Exercise restraint on free booze.
Slug back strong black coffee.
Try best to [...]
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Very funny video
A very funny video. No message or moral or relevance. It’s not here to encourage you (like this), to point you to some good books to read (not mine!), to introduce you to my guest bloggers or to tempt you to follow me on Twitter. It’s just good, mad fun. Enjoy.
Beard
One of the best things about big expeditions is comedy facial hair (unless you have a horrible ginger beard).
Here’s some fine beard growing, and a cool trip too.
(Well done to Kevin who pipped me to the post with this video!)
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