It was quite a journey from Ashgabat to Israel!
Category: backpacking
Best Tourist Places to Visit in Kerala for a Great Vacation! [Guest Post!]
Today it's a HUGE thankyou to Akansha Negi for this brilliant guest post about a place in India I really hope to visit one day - that is Kerala. The Beaches, backwaters, the spice and tea-covered slopes of the Mountains, fiercely protected wildlife and misty roads marked by the gushing waterfalls, make for some amazingly beautiful …
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Nuts N’ Bolts Guide to… Ethiopia
So. You want to go to Ethiopia? You don’t? Let me tell you – you’re missing out. Ethiopia is a thoroughly rewarding and consistently mind-blowing country to visit. It’s a large country in an area known as the ‘Horn of Africa’, bordering Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Somaliland. I think I got …
Big City Experiences – Tehran
Howdy all. Today’s ‘big city’ I am writing about is Tehran, the capital of Iran. When I write about my time in Iran, I don’t really write much about Tehran. The amazing cities of Yazd, Shiraz and Esfahan usually are the cities I write about, and they all have a lot of history and sites …
Little Places – Rotorua, New Zealand
New Zealand is a country blessed with the most beautiful natural scenery you could possibly imagine. Just flying over New Zealand left me in awe. I’m hoping to get back there next year and see a little of the South Island. Let me tell you about the first place I ever went in New Zealand …
What Kind of Travel do I do?
Last week I wrote a post about how the most important and enjoyable part of travel for me is the ‘journey’ part, the ‘getting there’. There are so many aspects to travel, and what is en vogue these days is ‘slow travel’. That’s basically taking your time and staying long term in places. A month …
Losing Your Cool When Travelling
Howdy all. I have written before about times I had lost my s&%t when overseas, although it was a while ago now, and I thought today I’d reflect on keeping your cool because I think it’s important because when we travel we represent the country we come from and also, you don’t want to make …
Why Not Consider … Belgrade?
Yes today it’s a look into the Serbian and former Yugoslavian capital of Belgrade. It’s a long time now since the war over Kosovo and the split of Yugoslavia into different countries, and indeed it’s some fifteen years since I went to Belgrade myself. However, I must admit it’s not a city I see a …
Nuts N Bolts Guide to… Thailand
Thailand. It was my first experience travelling solo. It’s a pretty popular country in South East Asia for tourists and especially backpackers and has been for a good thirty years or more now. I think it’s a completely different place to visit too nowadays to what I experienced back in 1999 when I got off …
That Time I Went to Iceland Part Two
Last week I began the story of my misadventures (or lack thereof) in Iceland, twenty years ago now. And about a month. When I wrote last week I wrote about arriving, the shock of being alone in such a … treeless place (clearly this is in my mind as I look at photos and there …
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