There are lots of things about my current lifestyle that put a strain on my relationship, the biggest being that I am living what I call quite an 'intense' way of life. Just look at the last 3 months......September, off the back of the Paddle Pickup expedition, I was...
‘Mum, I’ve met a boy’ ‘A Guatemalan?’ she asked ‘No…an Israeli’ I remember that Skype call home quite vividly. 6 and a half years ago sat in an internet cafe in San Pedro, Guatemala. Thankfully I have a mum who takes everything I tell her very much in her stride. She...
It's been on my radar for a while now that I'd like to have an electric bike to open up longer distances when adventuring. So, I was excited to have an opportunity to review the Himiway Cruiser. This long-range fat tyre electric bike solved my dilemma on which style...
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My love of freediving began when I completed a beginner course in Eilat. Since then, I've been lucky to freedive all over the world. And in between, I practice regularly at a flooded quarry near where I live in the UK (if you want to see what that looks like, check...
Family Adventures: How to adventure with babies and children As soon as Bex Band, founder of the UK's largest women's adventure community, Love Her Wild, announced she was pregnant with her first child, the sympathy began. 'Enjoy your adventures while you can', 'It's...
The light was already starting to come through the windows at half four in the morning. I reached across my camp bed to feel the temperature of the baby sleeping heavily next to me. She was feeling chilly - the damp cold of the church cutting through her layers. I...
I’m writing a book (I’ve also already started the next one and, if I'm honest, the one after that as well), juggling a community (which has rocketed in the last year), prepping for online talks and getting ready to launch a new podcast….all while getting used to being...
There seems to be a huge spectrum when it comes to Coronavirus and how it is affecting people. On one end are those who have had their lives completely turned upside down. And on the other are those sharing memes along the lines of ‘we’re just being asked to sit and...
I'm so terrible at acknowledging and celebrating my success that when I got to the end of 2019 I thought it'd been just ok. Growing Patreon, passing 25,000 monthly visitors to my blog, increasing my online following, finding a literary agent, learn how to rock climb,...
The West Bank had become a place I purposefully avoided in every way shape or form. Being married to an Israeli, politics has become an incessant part of my life despite my hatred of the topic. Everyone has an opinion on the Israel/Palestine conflict and most feel the...
2018 for me has been like a year of letting the dust settle. I jumped into my new life as an adventurer throwing everything at the wall to see what would work and if this really could become my reality. While I always felt like I was swimming against the tide, never...
It was great to receive such a positive response to My income report blog. And following on from lots of questions about my spending, I thought it would make sense to follow up with a spending report as well. When I set out on my blogging journey I always said from...
