February 2012
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WatchIf you want to get your legs in gear for a good cause then blank out 5-7 May in your diaries, because Bikin’ for Boobies in aid of CoppaFeel is taking on Cornwall!
Check out this link to register, and get peddlin’ and fundraising for an amazing cause!
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“There is an expiry date in blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong...”
– - JK Rowling, during her Harvard Commencement speech, entitled ‘The Fringe Benefits of Failure’
> View the whole speech here
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Interview: Hello Restless
An Orla O’Muiri interview
2 bicycles, 2 photographers, 30,000 miles and 50+ countries, to document the Geography of Youth.
1. So what’s the story with you two, best friends, lovers…..how do you know each other?
We met in 2007 while both working at the Maine Media Workshops for the summer. We moved to NYC right after that summer and the rest, as they say, is history!
2.You...
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Expedition1000 No.5: Imagine
Imagine finding yourself in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with nothing but sky on the horizon and thousands of miles separating your temporary floating home from land. No demands from work or the tax man or our bank managers, just a focus on everyday living and where we sit in a mini-community, on a yacht with finite resources that mirrors the floating of our planet in space. I can’t...
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This is the Night of Adventure
Monday 20th February 2012 Leicester Square VUE Cinema, London Tickets available on the door
Imagine throwing in your job and travelling around the world with your girlfriend and 8 month old baby. Mitch Stokes did that. Or rowing across the Pacific Ocean taking a route that nobody else had ever managed to complete. Chris Martin made it. Or howsabout a 30,000 mile circumnavigation of the planet, by...
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Don't trust me, trust them!
‘Is it good?’ they ask. ‘Well, I’m kinda biased.’
I enjoyed writing DATE (probably more than I did doing the research) and I found great pleasure in sitting opposite someone on the tube the other day as they were reading the book and shaking with what I think was a thorough case of the chuckles, but if you want an honest assessment of whether you’ll enjoy this read, take a look at the reviews...
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Interview: Run with Mark
Every week our very own Orla O Muiri pays a visit to someone fairly adventurous and riddles them with questions. This week, ultra runner Mark Cooper tells us about multi-marathon feats…
1. You weren’t completely happy with your life so you changed it. What did it take to make that decision, it can’t be easy when so many others don’t make the change? It was a really easy...
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The Adventurists Ice Run: Team Numb Nuts
Mission: “Olly Rowland and Rob Mills will race 1500km across the frozen Siberian wilderness on old school Ural motorbikes to the only town in the world sitting on the Arctic circle.”
Orla O’Muiri chats to two adventurers who are currently out buying some gloves.
1. Did you pick each other as teammates? Rob: Actually Olly picked me. When Mr Tom came up with this adventure we...
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