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Featuring Interview with Hilary Bradt Romania after Ceaușescu Travels in Mali
Plus Coast to Coast v The Pennine Way SMARTER goal setting Scrambling on Skye and lots more
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Topics In This Issue Of Adventure She Magazine Page 6 – Mali Before The Troubles
Page 18 – Mountain Biking Wales
Page 26 – Central Asia By Train
Page 36– UNESCO Feature – Bukhara and Samarkand
Page 38 – Interview with Hilary Bradt
Page 56 – Book Reviews 4
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Page 58 – Hitchhiking Brazil
Page 64 – Scrambling on Skye
Page 78 – Safe Swimming
Page 86 – Setting SMARTER Goals
Page 90 – Goal Setting – A Personal Journey
Page 94 – Top Ten Navigation Tips
Page 112 – Coast to Coast v the Pennine Way – Long Distance Hiking in the UK
Page 100 – Romania After Ceaușescu 5
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MALI BEFORE THE TROUBLES PART 1 By Jacki Hill-Murphy 6
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Imagine a world at peace, the cold war threat diminishing by the day, whilst jihadist terrorism, Desert Storm 1 and the 1990’s Balkan conflicts, to name but a few, were yet to enter our vocabulary. Imagine a time when the possibility to explore seemed limitless. Imagine a time when intrepid travellers crossed the Sahara by car. Explorer and author Jacki Hill-Murphy doesn’t need to imagine it, for she has lived it. Here Jacki Hill-Murphy shares part 1 of her story on travels in Mali. Part 2 will be in our next issue.
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e sensed a storm was building, for whilst Mali’s afternoon sun was still burning hot, like a flotilla of war ships grouping before mounting an attack, dark clouds gathered on the hazy horizon. High up in the sky white egrets cried hoarsely as they attempted to outfly the approaching storm. At ground level mopeds and old yellow taxis, dashed past us, anxious to get home. There was no escape though for the thick grass by the side of the road, the wind battered it, whipping it until it lay flat across the ground.
My then husband and I had driven all the way from the UK, and we were now 50 miles into our latest country, Mali. As dust whirled in curves around our battered Land Rover’s wheel arches, we pulled off the dusty orange road and stopped in a small copse of trees that danced to the increasingly furious wind. The blackness came quickly. Whilst the wind beat the Land Rover, rocking it, rain lashed against the thin metal walls until it slowly worked its way in through the seams and rivets. Yet I was loving every minute of it,
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despite my vulnerability. It felt like one minute I was on a stormy sea in crashing waves, the next, being hoisted up to the tree tops before spinning like a top back to earth, all accompanied by flashes of lightening lighting up the African sky. On such a night a courageousness enters one’s soul, and it did mine. Dawn came and with it a calm, bright, day. I peeked at a flock of red and brown Malian Firefinches that flew into our little thicket, squawking and flitting noisily around us as we
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Mountain Biking Wales By Kate Anstey
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All round us adverts try to entice us to adventure in far flung places. But what about adventures in our own back yard? With international travel in a rather uncertain state this last summer, Kate Anstey decided to check out an adventure close to her home in Wales, the 430km Sarn Helen mountain bike route, which stretches from Conwy on the north Wales coast to Worms Head on Wales’s south coast.
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CENTRAL ASIA BY TRAIN BY JUSTINE HALL
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Harriet’s Top Ten Navigation Tips By Harriet MacMillan
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If one of your goals for 2022 and beyond involves exploring the great outdoors more, particularly if you haven’t already done a lot of map work, we think you’ll find Harriet MacMillan’s tips on navigation to be of great value. Remember, if you get lost, wherever you are, whatever you do, stay calm, don’t panic, and think back to this article and Harriet’s tips.
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LONG DISTANCE HIKING IN THE UK – BY STEPHANIE COOKE
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Steph Cooke is a keen long-distance walker who has a goal of inspiring other women to get outside. She’s determined to show that we’re never too old for adventure. Here she relives her time on two of the UK’s classic hikes, the fixed route Pennine Way and the ‘plan your own route Coast to Coast. We hope Steph’s story and her kit list will help some of you, or someone you know, to get out there and achieve their own adventure goal.
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