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Microadventures

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Microadventures

By: Alastair Humphreys
Narrated by: Alastair Humphreys
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 ‘Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap’ Geographical

Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity.

So what’s a microadventure? It’s close to home, cheap, simple, short and 100% guaranteed to refresh your life. A microadventure takes the spirit of a big adventure and squeezes it into a day or even a few hours.

The point of a microadventure is that you don’t need lots of time and money to meet a new challenge. This practical guide is filled with ideas for microadventures – for you to experience on your own or with friends and family, plus tips and advice on safety and kit.

Whether it’s sleeping on a hilltop or going for a wild swim, cycling a lap of the Isle of Wight or walking home for Christmas, it’s time you discovered something new about yourself and the world outside your window. Adventure is everywhere, every day and it is up to us to find it.

©2019 Alastair Humphreys (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Adventure Travel Europe Western Europe Adventure Cycling
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I was looking for new and different fun ideas I could do in a few hours to half a day on the weekends that you didn't have to go and spend $100 on each time (ziplining, rock climbing, jet ski).

I couldn't finish this book as it was very repetitive suggesting to cycle 30miles, camp somewhere and then catch a train into work in the morning and a bit boring tbh.

I like camping, but that isnt a micro adventure to me, and it isnt legal for us to camp wherever we want so we are limited with close locations.
Also not practical, public transport limited and would take 2hrs to drive where I live in Western Australia and not suitable for when you need to be at work by 6am and also have kids. Not giving excuses, just context of where I'm at.

So if you want to hear about him cycling and camping but just in different locations in the UK, drinking beer and eating fish and chips, then this is for you. Unfortunately the preview cut off the sentence before he said this is mainly for people in the UK, otherwise I wouldn't have purchased.

Not what I was expecting

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I really wanted to love this book. I go on heaps of mini adventures but all from the book seemed to be about sleeping outside mainly without a tent and different ways of getting there. Like on the train or bus or swimming or cycling and then wild camping. Great if you’re a solo male, not so applicable if yoI feel unsafe as a female or have kids (who you need to contain in a tent so you don’t lose them). Maybe 2 adventures that sounded micro and doable were camping in your backyard and geocaching, besides that they all seemed pretty hard to do and organise. He makes it sound simple as you just grab your bag and go but so different if it’s more than just yourself. Wish there were micro adventures to do with going to local parks and finding nature in unexpected locations, even just finding green on a map and seeing what’s there, mapping out your neighbourhood etc.

Most adventures aren’t so micro

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