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#MikesLongWalk: Join My Walk From Home
This Saturday – May 7th, my Long Walk on the Camino de Santiago will begin. As some of you know, I am doing this to raise awareness and funds for ME/CFS research (donate here if you haven’t: https://www.justgiving.com/mhsuttonlongwalk). I’m doing this long walk because I was inspired by my best friend Joel, who is fighting […]
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Planning a camino for a busy guy and his 31kg dog
This post was written by Maria J Bellido. Maria is an awesome Virtual Assistant who helped Mike plan his Camino. She is super organised and a great executioner of plans and a fountain of creative solutions to seemingly impossible problems. Maria speaks 5 languages and lives in Zaragoza, Spain. First of all, I need to thank […]
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Update 2: The sort of final route, other bits and being a rainbow
I’m going for a 255km walk to raise funds and awareness for M.E/CFS and to, well, just walk. Read more about why I’m walking. My Final Route After much research and trying to navigate the various logistic challenges, my final route is San Sebastian to Santander. Covering a total of 255km and likely to last […]
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An Open Letter To Berlin
Dear Berlin, I wish I could say it was lovely seeing you on my last visit, but sadly not – and therein lies the reason for this letter. We’ve had a mostly cordial relationship these last 5 years that I’ve visited you – you never visit me – but that’s a different story. My past […]
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#MikesLongWalk: An update and my first training walk
The Latest News It seems like ages since I committed to walking the Camino and raising money for ME/CFS activism and awareness. Quite a lot has happened over the last month. Here’s the latest news: We’ve raised £2,128.66 out of the £3000 target and I’ve confirmed 2 sets of friends joining Maya and I on bits […]
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The Scrum Steam
This exchange happened on WhatsApp between my buddy and I. Enjoy. On a cold day, the heat coming off a rugby scrum can be such that it creates a visual effect known as “scrum steam” http://9gag.com/gag/aDo2xEw Photo by royskeane
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Tales from my travels: 50 Bucks!
I’ve met some of the most interesting personalities on planes. Or at airports. There is something about the transience of travel that seems to bring out a form of casual honesty. One such encounter was on a flight from Spain to Boston. As we boarded my connecting fight to Boston from JFK, I took my […]
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How Sporty is Spain?
I recently took up running and had occasion to shop for running gear and suddenly I’m seeing people wearing “sports” clothing everywhere. Most are unlikely to be heading to the gym. It’s almost like when you decide to buy a certain model of car, you start to see that model everywhere. Frankly I’m blown away […]
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Telephones in toilets
What is it with telephones in hotel room toilets? In this apparently 5-star hotel I’m holed up in Amsterdam – they have 3 phones in this room and one of them installed by the throne in the bathroom. Clearly I’m not the target audience for this level of communication equipmentization (I’m making that a word!). […]
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Downtime in the Age of Cloud Computing
We are working on an experimental mobile based social photography app called Snaptime and we have an ambitious plan to have it on the various app stores by the 1st of February so that people can start to play with it and help us learn what it does [and should do] for them. 8 hours […]