Everyday Adventures

239 Pages·2018·35.62 MB·English

by  Lonely Planet

Contents
#17 puppy #34 urban zen
Introduction
pursuit .............. 76 .................
......................... 7
#18 fake #35 sense of
Challenge
Follow your vacation.............. abandon.....
Yourself 92
senses 8 #19 modish 80 #Ro36ll vTihnet aDgiece
f#l2a1sh L omcoabl ...... 84 travel ........
#1 Follow #41 hands of
#Su2m0m ittr i.p.. ..p..o..k..e..r94 #37 Literary
your nose ...... 10 fate ...........
.#..2..2.... .A...i.r..p..ort 88 jaunt .........
#2 Urban #42 traveller's
social
Tourism ........ 98
#38 holiday
foraging........... 14 Roulette
adventures 50
#23 Plastic
replay .........
#3 Fly by ...................
cChualltluernagle....... 102
#11 pint-sized #39 Same-name
night ............... 18 #43
#od24ys s Zeeyrso budg1e3t4
tour game........
#4 Macro Alternating
day out .. 106
guide............................#31 Street art #40 melodic
lensing............. 22 Travel ..
#25 Urban Hike
#12 wild 52 ................. 136 travel..........
#5 Alphabet #44 Ariadne's
................. 110
Backyard ........... #32 Movie magic
Club.............. 26 Thread ......
#26 lend a hand
Introduction
You don’t need to travel far to see the
world with fresh eyes. It was on a drizzly
Adventure is a
day
way of life
in London, clutching my camera, that I
learned to love my home city again.
After years of weaving through crowds
The art of macro photography (
and avoiding eye contact in train
one of 50 bite-sized escapades in this
compartments, my love affair with
London felt rocky. Then, on a short
These ‘everyday adventures’ are designed
photography
to revitalise your relationship with your
course, my teacher urged me to zoom in
corner of the world. And you don’t need to
on London’s hidden beauty. Through a
spend big or travel far: transform your
lens,
commute into a holiday (
I saw my surroundings anew. At ground
your subconscious mind on a suburban
level, candy-coloured high-heeled shoes
struck the pavement with haughty,
(p.46), or escape from reality in your own
rhythmic steps. Corrugated iron,
backyard (
Victorian-style
Follow
your
senses
A D V E N T U R E # 1
What you’ll need
An area replete with intriguing
odours
F o l l o w y o u r n o s e
I n h a l e d e e p l y , i t ’ s t i m e f o r a n
o l f a c t o r y
o d y s s e y . . . U s e t h e b o d y ’ s m o s t
u n d e r r a t e d
s e n s e a n d d i s c o v e r t h e s w e e t o r
s o u r t r u t h s
i t r e v e a l s a b o u t y o u r l o c a l a r e a .
Instructions
1.
Pick a suitably smelly starting point: it
could be a fish market,
bakery or a flower-filled park.
3.
Your newly energised nostrils should be
2.
Breathe in, and let the strongest smell in
picking up on all sorts of
your vicinity envelop
odours by now, so sniff a second smell and
you. Is it appetising, intriguing or (better yet)
walk in its direction.
eye-wateringly rancid?
Walk or cycle to its source.
4.
Don’t smell anything? Walk or cycle away
Case study
Virginia Jealous,
Scentsitive Cyclist
In Denmark, on the far south coast of Western
Australia, we live life on the edge:
edge of river, inlet, ocean and continent. The
bicycle route from town to the wild
Southern Ocean hugs this fringe and is
landmarked by smells both marvellous and
Downstream a couple of kilometres, where
malodorous. A cycle ride gives my nose, and my
river meets inlet, the sharp smell of
legs, a surprisingly good workout.
bird poo make me slow down and look up.
Silhouetted against sky, the roosts and
A perfect morning smell starts the day, wafting
nests of cormorants are visible in the tree
from the riverside coffee roaster.
tops. Mornings and evenings are
Inhaling is almost as good as imbibing but not
punctuated
quite, so I stop for a caffeine hit.
by the flap and clatter of thousands of
wings as they leave and return in noisy
Shops begin to openf.l oAc kssm. oky haze of incense
from the fair-trade store really gets