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How the Magic of Maps Helped Me Escape During Lockdown
I know the Pentland Hills, the 20-mile hill range on the outskirts of Edinburgh, like the back of my hand. That said, I don't actually know the back of my hand that well. I could draw you five fingers, five fingernails, a midge bite and a couple of key veins if you...
More Than Just Movement – Travel and the Pandemic
Award-winning author, journalist and adventurer, Julian Sayarer, reflects on the pandemic, his record-breaking bicycle circumnavigation, and a recent ride through Palestine and Israel, to give a view of how travel and adventure has changed, and how it’s about to...
7 Quick Questions with Laura Kennington
Laura Kennington is an adventurer, speaker and author. She came to talk at one of the Much Better Adventures Investor events and stole the show with her story. Her book Kairos gives the full account of her journey from trapped in a pencil skirt and someone else's idea...
7 Quick Questions with Sarah Williams
Sarah Williams is an adventurer, qualified yoga instructor and the host of the Tough Girl Podcast. She interviews inspirational women with a background in adventure or sport, often overcoming great challenges. Read our full interview with Sarah here: Meet the Woman...
Laura Moss on Why Adventure Travel Should Be For Exploration, Not Competition
Laura Moss is, without a doubt, an adventurer. She has walked across a frozen lake in Siberia, hiked across the desert in Oman and cycled around the world. But she has one skill in her resume that separates her from the pack of adventurers. She is a solicitor. She has...
The Quirky History of Ordnance Survey and the UK’s Maps
Here at Much Better Adventures, we love maps. We love the way you can cosy up with them (like a mug of tea) and dream of future adventures. We love visualising the crinkles of a new destination - and of course how useful they are to find your way when you're actually...
Polar Bears, Glaciers & 24-Hour Daylight: An Inside Look at Adventure Life on Svalbard
It’s a little known fact that a group of polar bears is referred to as 'a celebration'. However, whether it is you or the polar bear who is celebrating after your encounter is entirely dependent on the circumstances of your meeting. In Svalbard, the otherworldly...
Hiking Tips for Beginners: We Asked the Experts
When you're a beginner hiker, one of the biggest things you want is advice. Am I doing it right? What have I forgotten to pack? Where should I go hiking? Sometimes you're lucky enough to know people who are full of hiking tips for beginners. You can go hiking with...
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The Best Hikes in Colombia | Medellín, the Lost City and More…
The best hikes in Colombia showcase the incredible biodiversity that the country has to offer. Trekking Colombia can mean anything from hiking through rainforests or on the outskirts of a vibrant city to visiting a a coastal town, a coffee farm or following the path...
French Alps: Your Adventure Guide
The French Alps have such depths of beauty and distinction that it’s almost impossible to condense their adventure opportunities into just one article. Mount Blanc, the highest mountain in Europe west of the Caucasus, is (as you probably know) found in the Chamonix...
Climbing Ben Nevis: Your Guide to the Routes
The highest mountain in the UK is Ben Nevis, in Scotland, clocking in at 1345m above sea level. It goes without saying that it's also the highest mountain in Scotland and therefore one of the mountains in the famous Three Peaks Challenge. Ben Nevis is significantly...
Namibia Holidays: Your Adventure Guide to the Country
Namibia holidays can range from arid desert fat biking to watching zebra and elephants grazing on lush African plains. Thanks to the Sports Relief 100km challenge in Namibia in March 2020, more people than ever are going to be opening their eyes to the adventure,...
Hiking in Iceland: A Guide to the Basics
A long time ago in decade not very far away, Iceland was all over the news. Before 2010, hiking in Iceland was not something many people had ever considered doing. It basically wasn't on the map for adventurers at all. Then, one of its volcanoes - the beautifully...
Tara Canyon: Your Adventure Guide
There have been whisperings in the air. You've heard tell of a secret adventure playground in a far and distant land. Montenegro: the Tara Canyon. Like an adventurer of old, you strike out to find out more about this mystical place off the edge of the known map. Here...
Atlas Mountains: Your Adventure Guide
The Atlas Mountains are a huge mountain range in North Africa, spanning from the west coast of Morocco, right across Algeria and Tunisia. Although most people associate the Atlas Mountains with Morocco, where they're at their highest, they aren't exactly small in...
5 of the Best Adventures in the Canary Islands
The Canary Islands are one of those places that everyone has heard of, but few people seem to know much about. Did you know that Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote are all a part of the Canary Islands for example? Three real heavyweights of the all-inclusive, fly,...
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An Adventurer’s Guide to Properly Keeping Your 2 Metres of Social Distancing
During these tough and trying times in quarantine and self-isolation, we are allowed but one daily jaunt outside for exercise (in the United Kingdom at least) and, even when we do that, we’re being advised to keep at least a safe two metre distance from any other...
4 Top Tips for Planning an Adventure
"How do I plan an adventure?" has got to be top of my most-asked-questions-about-adventure list. Alongside things like, "How do I work out what kind of adventure to do?" and "I'm scared people will judge me, how do I tell them?" That and, of course, the question that...
11 Ways to Get Your Adventure Fix from Home
At this point, you’ve probably settled into self-isolation and the quarantine lifestyle. Most of us can only dream about the beauty of the mountains right now, or of coastal winds and far-ranging views. The "new normal" is taking one trip outdoors per day for...
28 Mountaineering Books to Transport You into the Mountains
Mountaineering books are the best of both worlds. You can snuggle up in your sleeping bag, with a hot chocolate, and imagine you're stuck out in a snow cave. Or you can read about near-disaster stories in the mountains, safe behind a window hammered with rain, to...
National Parks: The Story, From John Muir to Yellowstone and Beyond
National Parks can be found around the world and, depending on which country you find them in, they tend to mean slightly different things. National parks in the USA are going to have different rules to national parks in the UK, and they’re going to have different...
How Many Stairs Do You Need to Climb to Reach the Top of Famous Mountains?
Sometimes, you can't get to the mountains. Sometimes you have to stay indoors and gaze longingly at pictures of mountains, dreaming of the day you'll reach their lofty summits. But what if you could bring the ascent of those peaks a little closer to home? With that in...
The Much Better Adventures Guide to… Working From Home
Self-isolation and/or a general quarantine is now very much upon us, and as a result, more people are working from home than ever. This is a new endeavour for most people, but at Much Better Adventures, as well as having offices in London and Bristol, we’ve also got...
16 Awesome Outdoor & Adventure Films Free To Watch Online
What have you got planned for tonight? Another night of exploring the great indoors, perhaps? Maybe you have a trip to visit your cupboard planned? A little holiday to visit your boiler, or an adventure to the fridge to check if you’ve somehow got more food than you...