31 October 2011

The Night of Adventure was brilliant. If ever you get the chance to go along to one, then do. It was fun and exciting, certainly for the speakers, but, also, I am reliably informed, for the listeners – at the same time raising a deal of money, on the night £12,000, supporting an incredibly worthy cause, Hope and Homes for Children. Well done, Al and Mike.

Personally, it was great being amongst such intrepid adventurers, hearing about their amazing activities and speaking to them in between. I am SO glad I stuck to cycling, far easier than skiing to the north pole or scaling Everest, which is what the two other female speakers did! On the other hand, natural navigation had a definite appeal to it, although not to the extent of trying it out walking the Skeleton Coast and there probably would be little need for it stand-up paddle-boarding down the Mississippi or walking the length of the Amazon. Micro adventures were appealing, slightly less so was off-road motor-biking, whereas extreme diving, especially when included with caves, held no appeal for me whatsoever, however impressed I might be with those for whom it does.

Yep, a great night. And I am unashamedly including a link to Al’s website and a complimentary comment about me from one of the audience!

And, if you want to know something about the speakers that you might have missed, you can check them out here.

And now, back to my book, which needs to get going a bit, if I want to carry out proposed plans for next year. Currently, they include walking to Santiago, by way of Plymouth to Santander, following the Northern Coast and Camino Primitivo, the reverse direction along which I cycled home last year.