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Category Archives: Our World
The Joy of Less
I’ve edited down this superb piece on simple living by Pico Eyer. Read the full New York Times article here.
“The beat of my heart has grown deeper, more active, and yet more peaceful, and it is as if I were all the time storing up inner riches…My [life] is one long sequence of inner [...]
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Thought for the Day: be canny, be cautious, yet be gracious and trusting
Whenever possible I listen to the Thought for the Day on Radio 4. This one struck me for its useful balancing of trust and caution, one of the most vital aspects of solo travel in distant lands.
‘You must be,’ said Jesus, ‘as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves’. A poetic way of [...]
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Everest mountaineer and dustbin man
I’m going to share a couple of relevant talks from last year’s Do Lectures over the next few weeks while I am away on expedition in Iceland.
First up, Paul Deegan:
Cycle Touring – The People You Meet
“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”
Victor Hugo
Other than close encounters with angry dogs, truck drivers, dire loneliness and dysentery my last seven months cycling up The Mekong river in South East Asia (writes Tom on the Bicycle Travel Network) could hardly be described as [...]
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On Living Simply and Naturally
Six weeks living in a tent on the Arctic Ocean. Six weeks when every possession I owned served a clear and important function. Six weeks in the same clothes. Six weeks in an empty, nihilistic landscape.
These are the times I realise how much junk I have back in my “real” life.
So I enjoyed this piece [...]
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Swimming in the Arctic
I love wild swimming, especially in remote and beautiful places. So the chance to swim under the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean was too good to turn down.
Here’s a short video I made about the experience.
On the variety of our world
“World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural.
I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various.”
- Louise MacNeise ‘Snow’
I am an Englishman. I grew up in an English village. I went to a school full of English kids. My parents, my teachers, my outlook: [...]
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Kindness on the Road
For the doubters and naysayers, for those who fear to get on their bikes and chase the sunset, for those who stay home rather than flying to far-flung lands: here is a reassurance that you will meet kindness on the road.
Here are 5 random acts of kindness experienced on the road
We were born too late to be explorers. To be real explorers. To be one of the hard men.
We were born too late to be explorers. To be real explorers. To be one of the hard men (for they were always men back then) fired by such curiosity, such desperate yearning to cross the next horizon, that they were willing to set off for years on end with slim chance of returning, with [...]
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