About the author
Nick Weston was selected as the resident survival expert for Shipwrecked 2008, based in the Cook Islands. He is a professionally trained chef, grows his own vegetables and often visits the country to source some wild food. Nick fills his blog, Hunter-Gathering: wild & fresh food with his passion for all things food related.

Micro Adventures: Pillboxing

Nick checks out the pillbox

I packed a small rucksack with headtorch, knife, flint and steel, culinary survival kit, pork (fresh from my friend Dan’s recently dispatched piggies) book, i-pod, camera, notepad, two ponchos, hatchet, water and the all important hip flask of whisky.

I clipped my sleeping bag and roll mat to the side of the bag and set off into the countryside at 4pm. I didn’t have a destination and only an hour of daylight left, unprepared perhaps, but as Mark Twain once said, you need two things in life: ignorance and confidence. And that seems to have worked for me in the past!

Continue reading this article @ HUNTER GATHERING: Wild & Fresh Food

There are no comments yet. Be the first and leave a response!

Leave a Reply

Wanting to leave an <em>phasis on your comment?

Trackback URL http://www.maketravelfair.co.uk/2010/02/07/micro-adventures-pillboxing/trackback/

Read previous post:
Enter the geotourists…

Ben Keene recounts his trip to the Geotourism Summit at National Geographic HQ in Washington D.C.

Close