When you are in a really hot place it cam be hard to keep your drinks cool. Naturally keeping your drinks out of direct sunlight helps a lot but eventually it will heat up to whatever the air temperature is. I remember being in India one time and it was […]
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Marcus Oakey is a world renowned expert in the subtle art of conversation. He brings a unique method of structure, passion and emotional intelligence into the personnel development world that has helped business people and regular people to have better, more rewarding and more useful conversations. He does not stop […]
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Natalie de Groote is an Arctic wilderness Dog Sled guide in Sweden, she escaped from Frankfurt in Germany to live her dream and shares her story here along with an interesting job opportunity to those of you looking for your own way out of the rat race. — Matt I […]
Read MoreVolunteer for the unpopular camp chores, if it’s a shit job then it might as well be you that does it. Take one for the team and do it so that they don’t have to. Volunteer to go and collect more firewood, Volunteer to pack up the tent in the […]
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You have probably noticed that when you are getting ready to go away on a trip, your water bottles smell terrible when you open them to fill them. When we get back from a trip, most of us unpack and neatly store our waterbottles on a shelf or in a […]
Read MoreFear of the dark, fear of flying, fear of heights, fear of spiders and fear of snakes, what do they all have in common? Most of us have one or more of these common fears and there are plenty more too. We have a type of evolutionary memory that is […]
Read MoreGo to any beach, anywhere in the world and you will find plastic washed up on shore. That is just what has washed up, exponentially more is out in the seafloating around. The worlds oceans are full of plastic and it is a very big problem that grows worse every […]
Read MoreThe first in a series of Pro Tips gleaned by me from my lifetime of Bushcraft and Survival training, Wilderness Expeditions, Teaching and Instructing. I work with some amazing people with some amazing experience behind them and I make a point of making sure that I learn from them so […]
Read MoreWhile extremely unlikely, it is possible that you will have to evacuate an aircraft at some stage. I found this air crew training video quite interesting and useful in understanding how air crew are trained to deal with forced landings and how good they are likely to be at handling […]
Read MoreOver the years, I have heard some pretty dodgy advice from people who do not know what they are talking about but this one was repeated to me recently. In countries or places where the water is not safe to drink, just mix a little bit of dirty water into […]
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