Tag: outdoors
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Trying van life in South Florida
I was 15 when I first decided I wanted a camper van. It was the year I read Scar Tissue, the autobiography of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ lead singer Antony Keidis, and I became enchanted by the idea of surf culture: long wavy hair, VW vans, colourful clothes and that hedonistic attitude of fun and […]
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What I’ve learned during a spontaneous weekend of solo camping in Sussex
How did I end up pitching my old festival tent by myself in 35-mile-an-hour winds and lashing rain after work on a Friday evening? I’d like to say that it was just a fun, spontaneous idea I had because I’m just a fun, spontaneous sort of women… but actually, it was more of a necessity […]
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Why are outdoor pursuits so white?
I had to scroll through seven pages of white people gazing over mountain vistas before I could find a stock hiking photo featuring someone of colour. And it’s not that my image search is powered by a neo-Nazi algorithm (I hope); it seems to be representative of what’s happening out there in the real world. […]
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How to look outdoorsy
I was inspired to write this post 5 years ago when I was shopping in Millets for things to take on holiday campervanning around California. Millets is a very inspiring place.
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The ‘be outside more’ challenge – 7 different tasks to do in nature and how it could make your life better
We all know instinctively that nature does something good to our souls. After all – we’re animals: we are nature. But being the clever monkeys that we are, we realised at some point a few thousand years ago that building walls around ourselves kept us pleasantly distanced from things like sharp-toothed animals and weather. And […]
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Pandemic paradise: Waterfalls, crystal clear pools and hobbit huts in the Lake District
It’s mad. I’ve lived in England all my life. I’m a keen walker, I love nature, I studied Wordsworth at university, grew up enamoured by Peter Rabbit and all of his other fluffy little mates and yet, until Christmas 2020, I’d never been to the Lake District: THE most walkery, naturey, Wordsworthy, Peter Rabbity place […]
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