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Clean Breaks

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:03:10 +0000

I have just received an email telling me that I have been ‘specially recommended in Rough Guides’ new book – Clean Breaks: 500 New Ways to See the World – published in August 2009.’ It goes on,

‘In writing this book, the authors have highlighted 500 fantastic places across the globe which will inspire people to see the world in a new light, selecting unusual holidays and alternative ways to travel which make a real difference to the lives of local people and the planet.

Only a few companies qualify for a special recommendation of this kind, which highlights your company as one of our authors’ favorites.

We are happy to offer you and your customers 20% OFF the price of the book, RRP £18.99. To obtain this, visit www.roughguides.com and enter ROUGH at the check out.’

So there you go, a 20% discount for all natural navigators. Although I noticed it is not as much of a discount as you get if you buy it from Amazon. Wait a mintue, maybe this is just an ingenious marketing technique, getting all 500 of us listed in the book to spread the word about the book amongst our ‘networks’? Oh well, not many flies on me, I won’t be drawn into that little game… Doh!

Wensleydale

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:01:55 +0000

I got back late last night after a very full day in the Yorkshire Dales. I was doing a shoot with the Escape to the Country team which finished at 6 o’ clock and then it was a six hour drive, Diet Coke and dark chocolate all the way, to get back home in time to get the first draft of my book to Virgin Books for the deadline.

Had a great, albeit quite short, time in the Dales. The production team and house-hunting couple were really fun to work with and it is hard not to enjoy a day in a place like that, even though it rained hard for half of the shoot. It will be shown around Christmas time I think.

Loads of great natural navigation clues and photos for me to share over the coming days.

BBC Countryfile

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:40:18 +0000

Recovering from a full and fun day filming with Jules Hudson and the team from the BBC’s Countryfile program. We were out on the South Downs and I spent the first two-thirds of the day teaching Jules some of the methods for navigating using nature and then ‘released him into the wild’ with a tricky challenge. If you’d like to know whether Jules managed to find his way using nature then it is being shown on BBC1 this Sunday evening (03 May) at 7.30pm.

I learnt plenty on the day too, Jules was an archaeologist by trade and a passionate historian, before becoming a presenter and his view of the landscape is similarly analytical to mine, but his senses are used to scouring for slightly different details. I learnt about how Wellington used to read the land in front of him, about hill forts and burial methods amongst many other things.