Forty-nine Fish and One River: Back at School at Sixty-Five!
Returning to the Rhine at sixty-five, Michael Brailey discovers that becoming a beginner again can reveal an entire landscape anew.
Mike Brailey
Born in the UK, Mike went to school in England and France before hiking across most of Europe in his early twenties. With a background as a photographer and engineer in the automotive industry, he has worked in Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas. His heart beats for classic cars and motorcycles, favouring an expedition equipped 1963 Land Rover Series IIA for overlanding. He is an outdoor enthusiast and, in 2016, followed his vocation to become an adventure journalist.
Back Roads of the Catalan Pyrenees: Cardona to El Pont de Suert
Duncan Gough’s Back Roads of the Catalan Pyrenees is less a conventional guidebook than a travelling companion, combining route information, local history and a quietly persuasive argument for slowing down and paying closer attention.
From Medical Transport to Mountain Tracks: Why QOOL Approached Expedition Cooling Completely Differently
QOOL's passive cooling technology began in pharmaceutical transport before finding its way into overland travel, offering a different approach to expedition refrigeration based on stability, efficiency and engineering rather than electrical complexity.
The BOXIO FIRE Bundle: Proof That Compact Doesn’t Have to Mean Compromise.
The BOXIO FIRE bundle proves that a compact fire pit no longer means compromise, combining barbecue, campfire and tripod cooking in a fold-flat system that packs neatly into a Eurobox.
New Jeep Avenger: Compact SUV Grows Up Without Losing Its Sense of Adventure
The updated Jeep Avenger sharpens the compact SUV formula with revised styling, improved technology, petrol, hybrid, electric and 4xe drivetrains, plus a dedicated 85th Anniversary edition.
Podcast #23: Igor Jelinski, the Overlanding CEO – Two Years Overlanding with Family
Some journeys are planned. Others are decided years in advance … and then followed through without compromise. Igor made that decision in his twenties. Before forty, he and his wife would stop everything and leave. Not for a holiday, but…
Fifty Years of BMW RS Motorcycles: The Long Road Between Speed and Distance
Munich is not a place that trades heavily on nostalgia. Progress tends to matter more than memory. Yet every so often, even BMW Motorrad pauses long enough to look back, not out of sentiment, but to understand whether an idea…
Lidl Grill Meister Portable Gas Barbecue: Cheap, Compact, and Fundamentally Broken
Lidl has thrown itself into the camping and van life boom with typical force, flooding its shelves and online shop with gear that mirrors concepts already proven in the field. A quick browse reveals the full spread: from Eurobox separator…