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Ditch your car and accelerate your path to freedom
We moved cities and it provoked an unexpected lifestyle shakeupWhen my partner and I moved to...
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Tour Aotearoa 2020 – Bike the length of New Zealand
Here’s one for the keen cyclists. An epic, bike-packing tour of the full length of New Zealand from Cape Reinga in the North to Bluff at the bottom of the South Island. Starting in February 2020, the route of the ride combines cycle trails, tracks, paths and lanes connected by quiet country roads.
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Epic rebuild of the historic wooden yacht Tally Ho
Rebuilding a 107-year-old historic wooden yacht from the keel up is nothing short of an epic, and...
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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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Activists march with their feet, not their fingers
Social media sharing is not the last word on activism Like millions, or perhaps billions, of...
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Astro-tourism at the Gran Telescopio Canarias
A unique Canary Islands experience has launched on Airbnb to witness two spectacular astronomical...
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Top LGBTQ-friendly Cities to celebrate Pride
When you want to get your Pride on, you want to do it with other fun-loving members of the tribe....
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New Experiences make time last longer
Expose yourself to new experiences that fully engage your senses and your brain will tell you you’re living a longer, richer life.
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Top 12 hacks to book cheap flights
You know great deals on flights are out there, so use our top tips to find and book them for yourself.
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Learning Journalism in a War Zone
Sunil Patel had no reporting experience of any kind when he decided to travel to Syria in 2012 to become a war correspondent.
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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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Jake Haendel was a hard-partying chef from a sleepy region of Massachusetts. When he was 28, his heroin addiction resulted in catastrophic brain damage and very nearly killed him. In a matter of months, Jake’s existence became reduced to a voice in his head.
'Is anybody in there?' Life on the inside as a locked-in patient
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The long read: Jake Haendel spent months trapped in his body, silent and unmoving but fully conscious. Most people never emerge from ‘locked-in syndrome’, but as a doctor told him, everything about his case is bizarreGladys West: the hidden figure who helped invent GPS
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Growing up on a farm in Virginia during segregation, West knew education would be her means of escape. But she didn’t know her quiet work on a naval base would change lives around the worldNew To Read
