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I had couple of jobs to do on the Sunshine Coast, an hour and a half north of Brisbane, so I decided to not waste the travel time by making it into more of an adventure. Once I’d finished installing the signs, I drove inland through superb country, green hills and thick forests. At Woodford,…
Why a “Jim Dobbin is a good man” sticker?
THE Jim Dobbin is a good man sticker STORY By this stage I would hope everyone has been told the story of the artwork, Jim Dobbin is a good man. Just in case one or two of you went out the back for a smoke, it begins thus… Lach Lustre, a gentlemanly young gent, SMS’d…
The Rules
The idea behind microadventures has been quite well documented – a way to look at the world differently, break out of our everyday routines, learn new skills and to appreciate stuff that we may have overlooked. They’re a passport to freedom. …so I’ve come up with a set of rules. From Alistair Humphreys… “…small and…
Sailing Moreton Bay (Quandamooka) (Part 2)
Sailing Moreton Bay Continued… So …we have a boat for sailing Moreton Bay …big enough to sleep on, small enough to sail single handedly and possessing something our good ship Laafin couldn’t boast – a keel that lifts up when we need to get into the shallows, or away from the sand bars that we…
City Cycle Pub Crawl – why not?
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Canal Boat Time Travel
It’s like Canal Boat time travel. Seeing Britain from a canal boat offers a unique view of English vistas tied resolutely to their historical past, whilst providing both accommodation and transport at the wonderfully slow five kilometres an hour. We started our family holiday in the UK with 10-days around the Birmingham canals in a…