Very inspiring. Funny. Practical.

This book really spoke to me. Last year I challenged myself to spend 1000 hours outside. I traveled to 14 National Parks, but learned it would be easier to spend time outside if I spent more time locally, and less time in the car getting to parks. So far I have stayed at two State Parks cabins this year.... but after reading Microadventures I am definitely inspired to think outside of my box. The author really promotes the basic premise to adventure in your community, from 5pm to 9am- by sleeping outside!! He says to start NOW! Maybe I can start by sleeping in my backyard. And maybe after that small step I could sleep at Hickory Hill Park over night... or ride my bike to Pechman Creek and stay there. It sounds so scary... and yet why not? When I was a little girl I always dreamed of sleeping out under the stars at my summer camp, and yet I have yet to do it! #microadventures

The descriptions in this book are very enjoyable, and I like the spirit of the meaning and purpose, but this is not very realistic for people with children.

Wow! This isn't the kind of book that I'd usually choose to read at all and yet when my husband mentioned it yesterday (having been discussed on Radio Four I believe) somewhere my imagination was captured. It arrived today and frankly, what's not to love? It is a beautiful thing that I will bedelighted to have on my bookshelves. It feels nice to hold, it contains nothing but gorgeous photographs of the great outdoors, many with Alistair in the frame too, and the text has a modern and edgy look to it.

What we have here is a man who likes to have adventures - and who has had at least his fair share. He talks about some microadventures he has had and that he recommends we all go out and try. These are the kind of things that one might do with a bit of imagination and if feeling a bit hem med in by everyday life. The kind of thing one could do of a weekend or even after work. The author is quick and clear to say, and repeat, that he knows we all have lives, jobs, commitments, financial restraints and families, and yet he is urging us to find our own microadventures, to find the time and make it work. He is pretty clear that the book he has written is intended to inspire - some people will want to imitate him, others will just take the idea and run with it.

The bottom line is that I feel entirely uplifted and motivated. Anyone who knows me will categorically say that I am not really the micro (or macro) adventure sort. Indeed my teenage daughters think that I have almost certainly lost the plot having spent most of the afternoon either reading the book or scouring the internet for tents and campsites. What this book has done for me is to highlight that even though I have four children, and two of them definitely too young to sleep outside or walk far, I can still take them outside and away to have adventures. We will be starting small, we will be camping on a site - which we have never done - but we will be starting somewhere. I know there will be those reading this who say I have missed the point, I am supposed to want to walk 20 miles with nothing but a sleeping bag and set up camp overlooking a lake, but I am not able to. What I am able to do though is make a start, to get the children into having microadventures so that as they grow our adventure potential will too.

This is great book, I will be enjoying it for some time to come.

I read this because of the 1000 hours podcast book club. While it did inspire me to take more adventures, it is very UK based. I didn’t know how to translate some of the adventures to my home country. There is very poor public transportation. I am a mother to two small children and most of the microadventures aren’t super feasible for toddlers but maybe one day when they are older we can replicate some his microadventures.

This book is extremely UK centric. It was very hard to get past the prologue, which felt like an extended humble brag. The author has had a very exciting life. Good for him!

This is exactly, IMO, the type of book to be enjoyed on the loo (IYKYK). It is a book of reference for those days wherein everyone is bored or out of sorts.

I skimmed it. There are some solid ideas, but not all are excellent for a Texan.

I found this book very inspirational -- but be advised that unless you live in England, or in a semi-rural area of another country, you might not be able to simply take a train out of the city into a rural area where you can hike up a hill and spend the night in a sleeping bag. That's why I ended up not finishing it. I live in a large urban area in the U.S., and his specific examples just don't translate to where I live. On the other hand, the book did inspire me to create short, inexpensive, not-routine adventures close to home, and I've already completed one and put another on the calendar.