adventure… Travel Video – Dogon Trek, Mali 14 Sep 201513 Sep 2015 In keeping with the Saturday series I've been writing, here's a video - quite a longish one - I compiled of my trek to the Dogon Escarpment. At 28 minutes…
adventure… Seven things to do in Melbourne in Spring 13 Sep 201512 Sep 2015 Welcome to a new regular-ish segment on my blog called ‘Seven on Sunday’ where I’ll talk about seven things to do or see in a place… well something like that.…
adventure… Marching into Mali 12 Sep 2015 Today Mali isn’t really the first place you’d go in West Africa. It’s had militant problems and Islamists controlled part of the country for quite a while before French intervention,…
America… Itineraries – USA Part One – The East 9 Sep 2015 Hello folks, here I am on a Thursday with another itinerary for you. This is my 2004 itinerary for the USA. Now, I also visited the US in 1999, and…
backpacking… A Georgian Wedding 8 Sep 2015 When travelling there are lots of different events you might like to attend from festivals to Eurovision. No seriously, it’s awesome and why wouldn’t you? But I think there’s something…
adventure… Travel Video – Burkina Faso 7 Sep 20156 Sep 2015 Monday's travel video this week is, in keeping with my Saturday post, from Burkina Faso 2007. I return to the scene of the 2006 with a mate and a happier…
adventure… Sunday Spotlight – Yokohama 6 Sep 20154 Sep 2015 Welcome to Yokohama, Japan’s ‘Bay City’, a place with a hellovalot going on to keep you entertained and interested for days. Yes, the spotlight is shining Japan way and Yokohama…
adventure… The West African Return! 5 Sep 20154 Sep 2015 For the last series of Saturdays I have pulled out some old blogs and reflected on my first journey to West Africa. You might think that after contracting malaria in…
backpacking… Foto Friday – Gate at Hakone, Japan 4 Sep 20153 Sep 2015 Japan is full of big, beautiful red gates just like this one near the lake at Hakone.