You’ve gotta give points to the towns in Wales for trying to create unique selling points to get the tourists rolling on through. There’s the bookshelf house, the longest place name in the world and now this.

Everything of interest in Monmouth has a plaque with a QR code linking to it’s corresponding Wikipedia entry. The video and the article explain all…

I love high FPS slow-motion video. I also love New Zealand. So this video, shot with this camera, made me a tad home sick.

In a nut-shell, 10,000 miles from England to Mongolia in a 1.5L of less car. There’s no set route, very few rules and once you start you’re on your own in the big bad world. I found out about the Mongol Rally a couple of years ago and I’ve had bursts of unreasonable motivation to do at various times over the years. I still think it’d be awesome, but finding 3 like-minded friends and the right time to do it is the hard part.

These guys did the rally last year, took a whole bunch of fantastic photos and made an hour long video of their mission. One of them just did an AMA on reddit.