Recreation & Sports
563 sites
Subcategories:
- Gardening (38)
- Hobbies (110)
- Sports (15)
- Travel (59)
- Outdoors (36)
- Collecting (166)
- Model Building (139)
http://www.debbysgardenlinks.co.uk/
Debby's Garden Links is one of the UK's most comprehensive gardening link directories, cataloguing hundreds of categorised links to nurseries, garden centres, suppliers, societies, and horticultural resources across the country. Running since 2000, the site covers everything from organic gardening and water features to monthly gardening jobs and wildlife planting guides.
https://woomie.neocities.org/
Woomie, a British collector named Luka, has been amassing retro games, consoles, controllers, and computers for over 13 years, and this site catalogs the full collection with sections for VR, Steam favourites, and video content. What sets it apart is the thoughtful perspective on PAL vs NTSC versions and the preservation philosophy behind why physical game collecting matters beyond simple emulation.
http://amrl.lu/
Patrick Bopp's trilingual site (English, German, French) showcases his HO scale model railway hobby, including custom parts fabricated with a 40-watt CO2 laser cutter that aren't available in stores. Visitors can browse galleries of scratch-built flatcars, boxcars, and gondolas, plus tutorials on creating photo-transfer billboard signs for layouts.
https://worldcoingallery.com/
World Coin Gallery claims to host the largest collection of full-color coin images in the world, with over 80,000 photos spanning coins from 1,340 countries and territories. Visitors can browse by country, check off coins in their own collection, view type values and descriptions, and even shop for coins with free shipping.
https://ascensionatsea.com/
Gord and Ginny Kerr document their nine-year sailing circumnavigation aboard Ascension, a Beneteau First 375, covering destinations from the South Pacific and Southeast Asia to the Red Sea, Mediterranean, and Caribbean. The site offers detailed cruising logs organized by region, a full route timeline, and the bittersweet story of how Hurricane Irma ended their voyage in the BVI in 2017.
https://www.railroaddata.com/
RailroadData.com is one of the oldest and largest railroad link directories on the web, hand-curated by editor Bob Harbison since 1996 with over 4,500 verified links organized into categories covering passenger trains, freight, tourist railroads, railcams, and model railroading. Railfans and professional railroaders alike will find it an invaluable gateway to train-related websites from around the world, complete with a search engine, viewer ratings, and hit counters.
https://rambler.neocities.org/pages/about-phil
The Rambler is Phil Schmidt's blog chronicling his retired life traveling the United States full-time in an RV, with posts spanning from 2022 to 2026. Phil's wide-ranging interests, from ham radio and solar power to hiking the Appalachian Trail and model sailplanes, give the site an adventurous, tinkerer spirit.
http://trainweb.org/PiedmontRR
Piedmont Railroaders, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit model railroad club based in the Virginia Piedmont region, celebrating over 30 years of bringing rail enthusiasts together for shows, events, and community outreach. The site chronicles club activities including train shows at venues like Dulles Expo Center and Bealeton Library, scenery-building videos, and a rich archive of member history and layouts.
http://davestravelcorner.com/links/blogs-of-travel
Dave's Travel Corner hosts what it claims to be the ultimate travel blog directory on the web, with over 4,000 travel blogs listed and organized across 197 categories. Created by Dave after a life-changing 1996 trip, the site curates domain-based English-language travel blogs with editor priorities, view counts, and personal notes about connections Dave has made with fellow travelers.
http://eastpenn.org/
The East Penn Traction Club is the largest modular trolley modeling group in the USA, based in Philadelphia and dedicated to both the history and hobby of streetcars, interurbans, light rail, and electric transit railroading. The site offers club membership info, event listings, module standards, a photo and video gallery, classified ads, and links to manufacturers and museums.