Mission statement:  This blog was created to share our passion for travel and online shopping.  Our goal is to provide information on must-have hiking and camping equipment, great places to stay and things to do thus enabling our reader to make well informed decisions.

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But enough about the Company … meet our bloggers:

Elliot lives for the outdoors. He’s tried most adventure sports and activities but his favourites are surfing, mountain biking, rock climbing, hiking and camping. He’s based in the adventure playground of Cornwall in South West England. Elliot is also editor of Adventure Cornwall (http://www.adventure-cornwall.co.uk), (http://www.adventure-devon.co.uk/) and is a regular contributor to various magazines and websites. When he is not riding waves or pacing the coast path, Elliot enjoys creative photography and keeping up to date with the latest music.

Jo aspires to be the sushi eating, latte drinking, designer handbag kind of girl, instead she has settled for forever having no money because it is spent on travelling the world and no matter how many times she has tried, she will never like coffee, not even in Revels! Originally from a background of senior management with a heavy slant on sales, she has since discovered a talent for words that was under-utilised, so has chosen to take it out of the box and stretch its legs.

Her love for travelling and fashion has morphed into writing articles on luggage as well as other reviews and her passion for all things funky, sparkly, cheap, expensive, and purposeful. Never one to mince her words, she writes with candour and humour on all manner of subjects and aims to offer the best advice on what’s available, what’s hot and what’s just downright pointless. Having spent the majority of her career boosting the international economy in terms of spending her salary on things she will only ever wear once, she has thrown off the bowlines and sailed away from the safety net of a corporate lifestyle and swapped high flying for just plain sailing around the world and loving every minute!

Craig is 25 and has recently completed a Journalism degree. His main interests are football, gaming, golf and I’m trying to take up the slightly daunting sport of orienteering! Given his sense of direction it should be interesting to say the least!

International travel’s always been a big interest of his and he has visited countries all over the world, from Egypt to Japan. He hopes to be going to travel a lot more in the near future, so watch this space!

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