I like living in this day and age. The lifestyle benefits and technical trappings really are quite marvelous. I can transport my family to a different country for a weekend without too much bother. It really does tickle…
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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Trossachs
Quick trip north of the borderPopped up to Scotland. The south Trossachs, in the MacDonald Forest Hills Hotel and Resort on the banks of Loch Ard to be specific. It's very nice. We've got a lodge who's best feature is a view up the Loch, which this…
Clicky click clicky clicketySat outside a supermarket waiting for wife and daughter to forage. The car is silent apart from a very faint clicking noise emitted from the two boys. Both of them have blanket / dressing gowns over their heads to stop…
Shall I try blogging every day this year?.. I mean, that's gonna be a lot of waffle, intermingled with my usual in depth musings. Worried that one won't be able to see the wood for the trees. However, it'll be an interesting project and this year is kind of a…
KTHNXBAI 2012, oh HAI 2013!Thumbnails from my instagram faves set on flickr What a year it's been. Sometime around this time of year I get a bit reflective and retrospective. I did exactly 10 years ago today anyway, in a post entitled…
Christmas kick-offThere's always the rhetoric around this time of year that Christmas has lost its magic and that it has gotten far too commercial for its own good. I must admit, that compared to when I was a kid (and Christmas was the…
LadyfingersWe were lucky enough to be invited to the UK premier of what turned out to be a funny, heart warming short film called Ladyfingers. The venue was fascinating; The Wharfe Chambers in Leeds. Stories of_ moles going…
On top of the worldRichard Fountain he's only gone and done it! - he made it.. to the top of the world. The summit of Mount Chimborazo, which is the place on Earth that's the furthest distance from it's center . I've been following his…
Half way up as far as you can goA couple of postcards in from Richard - who we've been following on his adventure to climb the highest mountain on earth*. First - one that arrived this morning - and the second down, one from a couple days ago.. Only a…
Double whammy of Adventure Shirt shotsFirst up - a great snapshot of life - real life, from the streets of Mumbai. It's been a while since a DD shirt has been shot in Mumbai - around 9 years to be amazingly almost exact to the day since the last shirt shot…
But is it art?Yesterday, I fancied a beach walk. Bridlington, on the East Coast of Yorkshire was the destination I plumped for, so having suitably enthused my family, off we set. We parked at a spot about 2 and a half miles south of…
Half way to as far as you can goYou may recall a post from a couple of months ago, when I was [[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2012/2012-08-22-chomborazo-as-far-as-you-can-go|foretelling the adventures of Richard Fountain]] - who was en route…
Quick Dublin visitSo we had a quick trip to Dublin at the weekend. Many birds with a single stone. Hanging out with a bunch of friends from England - Henry (from recent…
Double helping of artWe experienced two incredible and quite unique pieces of Yorkshire Art this weekend. The first being in the form of a play at Harrogate Theatre on Friday night. The Lighthouse on Shivering Sands. Adapted from a short…
Camping at Bobbybee'sSpent the best parts of Saturday and Sunday at Bobbybee's campsite near Filey. We've been to Bobbybee's [[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2011/2011-09-27-last-camping-mish-of-the-season|once]]…