20 years ago I started this blog with a tentative toe in the water describing our up-coming trip to Australia - which was the initial inspiration behind the blog. Since then, it's captured so much of our lives. Pre…
Adventure
What have the Romans ever done for us? Given us the Latin ‘adventurus’; meaning ‘about to happen’, from advenire ‘arrive’. That’s what.
The ‘Adventure’ part of the ‘DragonDrop Adventures’ moniker, was spawned from “Watchcam Adventures”. Now defunct, but once the world’s leading forum on all things watch camera. Now-a-days, the ‘Adventure’ category is the flag bearer for new, unusual, exciting or daring experiences.
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- DragonDrop is 20 years old!
Felix is 20Felix, our first boy spent his birthday with us yesterday. We had a tip top day, but the best thing about it was (nearly - with the exception of Jaygo who's in the UK) that we all spent it together. In the morning, we…
Felix in DubaiA DragonDrop Adventure Shirt Shot from the tallest building in the world.
Thiago, Nagarkot, Sepember 2018Entries into The World Famous DragonDrop Adventure Shirt Hall Of Fame are becoming rearer these days - mostly because I've run out of t-shirts (I'll have to do something about that one of these days). It's great to see…
Back in the UK for a bitUp until a day or three ago, it's been non stop since I landed back in the UK at the end of July. The first few days were spent in Hampshire - near Stone Henge - at Eirene's uncles house. Big family gathering, camping…
May2018It has been three months since the girls, Jaygo and I moved to Dubai however It feels like so much longer. We have achieved so much in that time and the children have done so well adjusting to their new surroundings.…
- Annie moves to Dubai
We made a short video about Annie's move to Dubai to share with her old class back at Grove Road School, Harrogate.
- Duburbia
I've been photoblogging through instangram. This city is so photogenic. I've seen a really amusing phenomenon though - heavyweight selfie errors. Selfie's are huge here for some reason - I've never seen as many people…
DragonDrop Adventures: Book 2Moving to a new country feels more like a new book than a new chapter. We're bound to have several chapters within the book. I'm past page one now but still in the preface. It feels like I've been here longer than 11…
DragonDrop Adventure T-Shirt Club: DubaiDragonDrop Adventures T-Shirt Shot I've not counted recently, but I think the DD T Shirt adventure club gallery is close to 100 now. Here's the latest installment; me standing near the foot of the worlds tallest…
- I'm moving to Dubai next week.
That's the theory anyway, pending my visa application processing going to plan. I've had a while to get used to it now but I forget that the rest of the world isn't used to the idea yet and I'm bumping into people who…
UAE Visa hatching hitchingI've never had to sign a document with my thumb print before. It's a requirement of the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Human Resources & Emiratisation as part of my visa application process. low tech Biometric…
NUX 6 reviewYesterday, I attended NUX (Northern User Experience) annual conference in Manchester. 1 word summary? Superb. 1691 word summary?... Great curation. The balance of speakers went from someone telling us about GDPR and the…
Summer 2017Since 2002 I've blogged on average over 10 times a month, however, apart from one quick post about Felix's re visit to Paris I haven't blogged a jot. This doesn't equate to the lack of stuff I've done or we've done as a…
Felix up the Eiffel Tower then and now.In 2003 Felix went on a school trip and went up the Eiffel tower. He had a word famous DragonDrop Adventure Club T Shirt on. Earlier this month, he went off on his own (well, with 3 friends) and re created the shot. He…