Category: Adventure
Join the crew of HMB Endeavour
The tall ship HMB Endeavour is celebrating 25 years at sea and is inviting crew for significant voyages in 2019 to Tasmania, New Caledonia and New Zealand.
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SLV Essential Sail Guide not so essential
The Youtube stars of sailing channel Sailing La Vagabonde have published the SLV Essential Sail Guide to encourage others to follow in their footsteps.
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Jahorina – Winter wonderland
My Favourite Place – Jahorina To me, there aren’t many places in my country that can match...
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Kravice Waterfalls — My secret place
My Favourite Place – Kravice Falls Have you ever gone to bed hoping to dream of a secret place...
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I fell in love with the Canary Islands
It’s often said that the Canary Islands are a real Heaven on Earth. I, for one, believe that to be...
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Tobacco farms and cave dancing in rural Cuba
Highlights of my three-week trip to the communist country in the Caribbean.
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Trekking the Kuari Pass in the Indian Himalayas
Trekking the Indian Himalayas in winter is a magical experience
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Making it to the top of Mt. Everest
To make it to the roof of the world you need more than skill, you need an iron will and a generous...
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Diving the Wrecks of Truk Lagoon
The guys at Dan’s Dive Shop of St Catharines in Ontario, Canada were so keen to get to Truk Lagoon...
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Life in Space
Do kids still dream of being astronauts? Nearly 50 years since man first landed on the moon, I...
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Setting Sail for far Horizons
Running away to sea has been a romantic notion of freedom and escape for as long as there have been romantic notions, or at least for as long as there have been boats and ships to go to sea in.
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Suddenly homeless in their 50s and with Moth facing a diagnosis of terminal illness, Raynor and Moth Winn made the radical decision to walk the 1,000km South West Coast Path of England. Raynor documents their life-affirming experience in her Costa Book Award-nominated memoir, The Salt Path.
‘Nature was my safe place’: Raynor Winn on homelessness and setting off on a 630-mile walk
theguardian.com
Without a home, and facing terminal illness, Winn and her husband decided to walk the South West Coast Path. She talks about the experience – and her Costa-nominated memoir, The Salt PathA number of stories about Australian 4WD Hire allegedly ripping off its customers have appeared in Australian media but now one of those customers has won his court battle against the company.
Sydney man Glen McGarry was accused by Australian 4WD Hire of using contaminated fuel in his hire vehicle, tampering with its electronics and speeding. He denied all the allegations but the company demanded $15,000 from him.
Australian 4WD Hire has now settled the case with Mr McGarry and the signed statement from the company absolves Mr McGarry of any wrongdoing.
Mr McGarry said the claim by Australian 4WD Hire was a baseless attempt to extort money from him and he was fortunate he had the time and money to fight it in court.
4WD hire company admits customer it was suing did nothing wrong
abc.net.au
A prominent 4WD hire company is accused of charging for speeding fines that do not exist and misleading tourists about insurance cover in a bid to demand thousands of dollars from its customers, an ABC investigation uncovers. But one customer decided to fight back.