travel done beautifully
Everything started for Millican back in the early 90′s, on the boarder of Ecuador and Peru. Two people took some time off to rediscover what they loved – the great outdoors, the environment, exploring, vintage travel items and just slowing life down a bit – finding some pace. So in the summer 2008, with help [...]
a competition…
Diana Barnato Walker was one of 168 female members, who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), during World War 2. She was a socialite, she apparently partied hard and she delivered Spitfires, by flying them to specific locations throughout World War 2. Is is said, that she would reapply her lipstick, before exiting her [...]
BOO!!
It’s Halloween, we love it and this is Harold the workshop pumpkin and he’ll be keeping his candle burning bright this Halloween, because he’s rocking our waterproof and windroof Anabatic! Harold also said that he loves the adjustable wired peak on the hood, we told him he would! Harold also said that it would be [...]
Finishing what you start
I’ve always been a runner, if I don’t run – I get tetchy, but I’ve never been one for races. New year’s 2011 I decided I needed a challenge, so I signed up for the Eden Project Marathon and I got into my long Sunday runs along the coastal paths of Cornwall. I suffered sun-stroke [...]
A ship in harbor is safe…
A ship in harbor is safe – but that is not what ships are for. ~John A. Shedd I think we’re all ships (defo sounds cheesy), yes safe feels good, but I definitely feel that adversity, chance, putting ourselves in risky situations – keeps us alive, maintains our happiness. Mr. Shedd is right, ships weren’t [...]
le Bowthorpe…
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 One of our Pioneers James Bowthorpe is going to be going on one of the most amazing trips of his life and one of the most amazing, we’ve probably ever been a part of. The details of the trip, we can’t yet divulge, it will be on foreign soil and we need to [...]
Brisa is ‘Beautiful’!!!
Thursday, May 19th, 2011 First year in the making, new to the Finisterre product stable, we’d like to think the Brisa is yet another addition to what is one of the finest base layer companies in the world. It’s breathable performance, designed for high activity, they don’t smell and we’re not the only ones shouting [...]
challenge the big dog!
Monday, May 23rd, 2011 Waterproof, the oh-so sacred art of keeping you dry. Companies used to spend money on innovation, proprietary fabrics, the search for better, smarter. From a evolutionary point of view – variations is good, more in the melting pot, more ideas = better and smarter, we evolve. Back in the day, the [...]
Kingfisher… spotted one?
Thursday, June 30th, 2011 Do you like the BBC? Do you like natural world documentaries? Well we’d like our very own TP, designer and natural historian, to take you on a little walk, he talks about the Kingfisher, its history, it’s rad! Finisterre Kingfisher from Finisterre on Vimeo. The Kingfisger is so rad, that we’re [...]
EDC: Every Day Carry
Thursday, May 19th, 2011 The Etobicoke has catapulted itself into out most successful jacket in our little companies history, why you ask? Because is just works, it’s the perfect Every Day Carry, as Thomas Hall puts it. Thomas Hall has been with us for a few years now, one of our finest Product Testers to [...]
