In late November 2010 I was challenged by Vodafone to travel from Lands End to John o’Groats with no money or food. I was given five £10 pay-as-you-go FreeBees SIM cards to use as currency and I bartered my way for 900 miles using social media. I took only my iPhone 4 for photos, video [...]
Predict My Finish Time and Bag an iPhone 4 #FreeBees
November 25, 2010 by · 1 Comment
Free_Iphone4_challenge.mov Watch on Posterous I just got an email from Dan Bowsher from the @VodafoneUK team telling me that anyone who tweets my exact finish time at John o’Groats (failing that I imagine the closest) with the #FreeBees hashtag will win an iPhone 4 and a £10 topped up FreeBees Vodafine sim. Make sure you follow [...]
The Balvenie Signature 12 Year Old Whisky
April 11, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
Tonight I am drinking a wee dram from a sample bottle of the Balvenie Signature 12 Year Old Whisky. It’s a limited release, single malt Scotch whisky that David Stewart first made in 2008 to mark his 45th year in the whisky industry. I’ve only recently finished a bottle of Single Barrel Balvenie a few [...]
Into Knoydart (part 5)
November 12, 2009 by · 4 Comments
On the road, soaking up the wilderness as we cross the Knoydart peninsular. We suffer a couple of minor injuries but nothing we can’t handle. There will be, and in fact is, blood. But not much. This is part five of our trip. Part one is here: into-knoydart-part-1 Part two is here: into-knoydart-part-2 Part four [...]
Home Is Where The Tech Is
November 10, 2009 by · 4 Comments
Into Knoydart (part 4)
November 10, 2009 by · 3 Comments
In this episode we eat some more great food cooked on a titanium stove and drink fresh coffee in the woods. Yup, more roughing it in the wilds of Scotland. Oh yes. And we have solar power. This is part four of our trip. Part one is here: http://documental.ly/into-knoydart-part-1 Part two is here: http://documental.ly/into-knoydart-part-2 [...]
Into Knoydart (part 3)
November 8, 2009 by · 4 Comments
Into Knoydart (part 2)
November 7, 2009 by · 1 Comment
Wilderness 2.0
November 2, 2008 by · 6 Comments
Monday morning for me this week will start at 4am as i rise, wash and head over to my friends for 5am, the official start of our trip into the wilderness. We will drive nearly 500 miles north into Scotland to Mallaig. From there we hope to be in time for the ferry over to [...]
