Many moons ago - 1999. My first trip to Thailand, and my first trip to Chiang Mai. I took the ye olde patented now elephant trek into the 'jungle' as they like to call it. Very few photos taken of the trek by me, however my friend on the elephant's back - Ian, bought this …
Month: August 2015
Throwback Thursday – The Interac Experience
I’ve never done a ‘Throwback Thursday’ before, so here goes. I’ve put all my experiences with Interac, the company I thought English in Japan for for two years, into this post. I’ve noticed that they continue to get a bit of traffic even a year or more since I posted them, and I thought it …
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Fast Food Around the World
Fast food – your typical American chains. Yes, I’m talking about McDonalds, KFC, Burger King and Subway. As a traveller you might get very depressed when you’re at the entrance to the Terracotta Warriors and you see everyone going into KFC to eat, or perplexed at the presence of KFC and Pizza Hut by the …
Travel Video – Helsinki
Hey folks! It's Monday, which means I am featuring another one of my travel videos. Today's one is short and sweet - at just four minutes in length it takes a brief look at my time in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. Hope you enjoy it!
Sunday Spotlight – Samarkand
Welcome to the sunniest of Sunday Spotlights, concluding this week’s look at Central Asia. Samarkand is a city full of rich history and beautiful Islamic architecture. Bukhara has a more clear distinction between old and new cities, but Samarkand’s ancient treasures seem to be weaved into the modern city a lot more than the equally …
West African Memories – Burkina Faso and Malaria
Howdy again. Just for one little day I’m taking a break from the Central Asia theme and returning to the ongoing story of my time in West Africa in 2006, reviewing my old blog entries and reacting to reading them again. And we’re at the tipping point today, when I contracted malaria. Actually it’s been …
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Foto Friday – Stunning Kyrgyzstan
If you wondered just how beautiful the mountains of Kyrgyzstan could be, well here's a photo I took that shows you. Taken in a place in the mountains called Altyn Arashan.
City Rumble – Dubai versus Astana
Boom! The City Rumble is on again and today the contestants are two cities with an eye to the future and some of the world’s most ambitious architecture. In the red corner, from the UAE in the Middle East, weighing in at a population of 2.1 million is the glitzy Dubai reaching high for the …
Bishkek – Culture and Character
As Central Asia week continues, I bring you a little photo journey though he capital of Kyrgyzstan, little Bishkek. Not as big as the other regional capitals, Bishkek has a charm of its own and is actually a quite attractive city with some beautiful parks, lots of theatre, a strange museum which suggests that Kyrgyzstan …
Why visit Central Asia?
Hey folks, you know I've written a fair bit on Central Asia over the last year and a half, about my time in three amazing countries there – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, but today I wanted to address why you should go there. Firstly – the thrill of the unexplored. Okay, you’re not going to …
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