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Category Archives: MicroAdventure
Building and Sailing your own Boat
Osbert Lancaster built his own sailboat and set out to gently explore the lochs and bays around his native Edinburgh. You do not need to head round the world to seek out adventure. Here he explains his adventures using just 20 slides which each scrolled on automatically after 20 seconds: a 400 second adventure. DON’T [...]
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Microadventure #5: Back to Basics
After a few hours of hating this stupid experiment, I noticed that my mind was slowing down. I was coping.
Paddling and Spider Crabs – a Welsh Microadventure
Not for the first time I am struck by how easy it is to find somewhere remote and surprising in Britain, if only you make a little effort to think originally and seek adventure.
microadventure competition – howies
You’ve been reading about them all year. Now it’s time to take the plunge yourself into a world of cheap Credit Crunch adventures. Microadventures that are close to home, which are fun, affordable, easy to organise and designed to get you doing and experiencing things that would normally pass you by. Adventure is all around [...]
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microadventure with howies
You've just got to do it.
Destination: Muckle Flugga. Microadventure #6
A journey through the most remote islands of Great Britain by folding bike and packraft.
Microadventure on the Shetland Isles
By bike and packraft to the most remote outpost of the UK. Microadventure Number 6 for the year.
Microadventure Number 6
The one with the packrafts and the folding bikes. Preview.
Midsummer – Do Something Adventurous
It's the longest day of the year. Here's how to not waste it.
Hmmm…
Combine a Brompton and a packraft and I feel a microadventure brewing...