In the first Lord of the Rings book, the two Hobbits come out of a cornfield, and one stops. Asked why, he says this is a place he has never been, and everywhere he goes from there will be new. A good description of an adventure.

We like to go on trips when we can get some time off work. Most of our trips are relatively short and we fly to our destination. We just bought a new to us touring bike (today) so are now planning where we going on it this spring, summer and autumn amongst our already booked trips. This has been going on for a few years now and our friends describe us as 'adventurous'. Our trips are definately not planned to the nth degree - we sometimes find ourselves stranded at an airport without a word of the language having arrived on a delayed flight and trying to find a hotel at 2am.

Bike trips are are also on the fly, we try not to have a destination on any given day as it then becomes just a ride rather than just stopping as and when. We often book hotels at 6pm and arrive at 6.30.

So there you have it - many people we know think we're really adventurous, we think it's just what we do and you lot probably think that it sounds more dull than going to bofb's Waitrose.