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The Savvy Scot

Personal finance and lifestyle blog

Viewing category: Adrenaline Junkie

Change Your Life – Step 5 Learn New Skills

By savvyscot

Step 5 Learn New Skills

If you are new to the Change Your Life series then you can catch up with the following articles from the series: Part 1 – Exercise Part 2 – Eating Healthily Part 3 – Get Knowledge Part 4 – Your Appearance This week’s addition to the change your life series involves learning new skills. This… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Change, Self Development Tagged With: Change appearance, Change Your Life, Get Smart, how to improve appearance, how to improve my appearance, improve hygiene, learn new skills, learn skills, power of knowledge, should i change my appearance, teach skills, teach yourself skills

Change Your Life – Step 4 Your Appearance

By savvyscot

Change Your Life - Step 4 Your Appearance. Take a look at yourself in the mirror. Do you like what you see? Chances are if you think not exactly or I look OK then others are going to think that too - Do you want to be an average joe? Or do you want to be that memorable person that everyone wants to know?

To recap, the last 3 weeks we have been making small steps for a big change. If you are new to the Change Your Life series then I recommend you read these articles first: Part 1 – Exercise Part 2 – Eating Healthily Part 3 – Get Knowledge Improve Your Appearance and Hygiene Take a… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Reflection, Self Development, Transitions Tagged With: Change appearance, Change Your Life, Get Smart, how to improve appearance, how to improve my appearance, improve hygiene, power of knowledge, should i change my appearance

Blue Turaco, Mto Wa Mbu, Tanzania

By savvyscot

Blue Turaco, Mto Wa Mbu, Tanzania

The following is a guest post from Off The Beaten Path – A great resource for unconventional Travel Destinations (right up my street for sure) – Here is a taster of what they have to offer. The one downside is that each update will  probably make most of us sick that we are sitting in… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Guest Posts, Travel Tagged With: Blue Turaco, Off the beaten path, off the beaten path travel, Tanzania Travel, Tanzania travel tales, travel fun, travel stories, Unconventional Travel

Mission Failed..

By savvyscot

Mission Failed..

If you read my last post ‘Sunday Update‘ you will know that I was supposed to be climbing mountains around the UK all this week. Unfortunately not everything went to plan.. Here is a quick recap of what happened: We departed Edinburgh at around 7am on Monday morning. This allowed us plenty of time to… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Charity, Fitness Tagged With: 3 Peaks Challenge, bad weather on mountains, Ben Nevis, Ben Nevis < 4 hours, Ben Nevis quick time, Climbing Ben Nevis, Mission Failed, Scafell Pike, Scafell Pike at night, Scafell Pike bad weather, Scafell Pike in the dark, time to climb Ben Nevis

Sunday Update

By savvyscot

Sunday Update

  Sunday Update Hello everybody. I write this post whilst at 30000ft, for today I am flying to Edinburgh. This week I will be taking part in a crazy 3 part challenge in an attempt to raise £1000 for charity. I’m supporting Shelter, a homeless charity that does some fantastic work in the UK. Myself… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Fitness Tagged With: Sunday, Sunday Update

SHHH Did you hear that?

By savvyscot

Hola! It has been a busy few weeks after returning from honeymoon. I haven’t stopped! I only just properly realised that taking vacation from work is very different from University / School holidays: School / Uni Holidays are holidays – you pick up where you left off on return Work never stops – and it… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Fitness, Updates Tagged With: Adsense, JP Morgan Race, Macpac Rapaki, North Face Diad, North Face Hedgehog, Outdoor Challenge, UK Walking, Walking

Goodbye Roatan – We got Certified!

By savvyscot

Roatan

We leave Roatan tomorrow 🙁 !! We have a gruelling 26 hours of travel ahead of us, but today became certified RESCUE DIVERS!! 😀 We also had one of the best ever dives – I will leave you with a picture before I check out. Talk to you from the other side of the pond… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Travel Tagged With: Diving, Roata, Roatan, Roatan Turtle, Turtle, Turtle Kiss

Roatan String of Pearls

By savvyscot

Roatan String of Pearls

Today I have a story to tell you, but first check out these shots 🙂 We came across this plaque today whilst visiting the Jumbilima Park in Roatan (After ziplining through the trees)! How cool is that…. Someone actually spent 24 years looking for butterflys!! How do you like this one that looks like a… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Reflection, Travel Tagged With: bioluminescence, bioluminescence string of pearls, Butterflies of the alphabet, butterflies Roatan, Diving, diving pearls, Letter Butterflies, Macaw, Macaws, Night Diving, Roatan, Roatan Diving, Roatan Flower, Roatan Macaws, Roatan Night Dive, Roatan Zip Lining, String of Pearls, Victoria's Secret Scent

Diving in Roatan – Part 1

By savvyscot

Diving in Roatan – Part 1

Still haven’t quite nailed the time difference yet (+7 hrs) but getting there. I managed to sleep until 6 am this morning which was good. We made the fatal mistake of going for a ‘nap’ on our first day at around 4pm and turning of the alarm! That was probably the first time that I… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Food, Travel, Updates Tagged With: Conch, Coral Reef, Diving Honduras, Diving Roatan, Diving West Bay, Diving with Turtles, Diving with Turtles Roatan, El Aguila Wreck, El Aguila Wreck Roatan, Lobster, Moray Eel, Moray Eels, Roatan Beach, Roatan Conch, Roatan Coral Reef, Roatan Lobster, Roatan Marine Park, Roatan Reef, Salva Vida, Scuba Diving, Scuba Diving in Roatan, Scuba Roatan, Turtle Roatan

Choosing Your Head Over Heart

By savvyscot

Choosing Your Head Over

  I was in a really good mood when I got home today – had a meeting at work that went really well and excited that the long weekend is just around the corner… That is, until I opened a letter to find a speeding ticket :(. I was caught doing 42mph in a 30… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Change Tagged With: Head over heart, Selling motorbike, Speeding, Speeding Ticket

I’ve Got my Baby Back :)

By savvyscot

I’ve Got my Baby Back :)

As my regular readers will know (I have some of those now 😀 ) Mrs Scot was in a car accident on Thursday evening 🙁 – The car is badly damaged – both airbags went off, bumper / bonnet ruined, possible cracked radiator… – and is currently at the insurer’s garage being assessed. Given that… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Personal Finance, Saving Money, Transport Tagged With: Bike Repairs, DIY Repairs, Motorbike Repairs, Saving Money, Yamaha R1, Yamaha R1 repair

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