Making life a holiday with interesting vacation and adventure ideas.

Mark Beaumont, a 25-year-old man from Fife, Scotland, has broken the record for cycling round the world. He completed the trip in a staggering 195 days.

Mark Beaumont, from Fife, completed the 18,000-mile journey this afternoon, when he crossed the finish line at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris Read the full story.

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The great French sailor, Francis Joyon, has regained the record for sailing single-handed around the world. He crossed the finish line off Brest onboard his 97ft multihull IDEC, in a time of 57 days, 13 hours, 34 minutes and 6 seconds. shattering friend and rival Ellen MacArthur's record by two whole weeks.

Labels: Ellen MacArthur, Francis Joyon, record, sailing, World

Here is a nice event for Halloween. At 6:00 PM on Sat. Oct. 27, 2007, in Toronto, Canada and simultaneously around the world, there will be an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the Largest Simultaneous Dance. Of course, being Halloween, the dance routine has to be the famous Michael Jackson's 'Thriller', which appropriately celebrates its 25th anniversary this year; doesn't time fly when your a Zombie.

Thousands of people in cities around the world are learning the 'Thriller' dance and if your not already involved, you can check out a participating event near you by going to the Thrill The World website.

The current record is 197,569 young students doing the Hokey-Pokey at 681 locations across Canada in April 2002.

Labels: 2007, dance, Halloween, record, Thrill The World, Thriller, World record

British adventurer David Hempleman-Adams has claimed yet another world record by flying a conventional hot-air balloon in an open wicker basket to 32,500 ft, almost the cruising height of a jumbo jet. He was also the first person to fly a balloon over the North Pole and on September 22, 2003, became the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean from New Brunswick, Canada, to Ireland, in an open wicker basket, hot-air balloon.

For the past twenty years, David has traveled the globe on record breaking expeditions. Witnessing at first-hand, the environmental and social destruction caused by climate change: from the melting ice-caps of Greenland, to those at the North and South Poles, to islands in the Pacific Ocean being submerged by rising sea levels and the devastation of the rain forests, he is pushing the boundaries of what is possible in order to draw attention to the climate change issue.

Labels: altitude, David Hempleman-Adams, hot-air balloon, record