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Category: backpacking
Train Journeys – Nha Trang to Hue
If I have a main regret about my time in Vietnam, it’s probably that I didn’t spend as much time on the rails as I could have. Yes, there was the toy train at Da Lat which I’ve mentioned before and deserves a ‘train journeys’ of its own one day (And I’d say will …
A Date with Malaria (Part One)
Ok, I apologise for the title, I really was stuck for one and this is the best I could come up with and I do love a catchy title. Yes, I’ve decided to recount the time when I had malaria in West Africa. It seems reasonable as when I had it I had just started …
Sunday Spotlight – Casablanca
I only visited Morocco once, and for a very brief two days. Those two days I spent in Casablanca. Yes the city where the movie was set called… umm… you know the one where people think there’s the famous line ‘play it again Sam’, but actually that’s not quite the line? The name of the …
Trip of a Life Time – Part 4 – More on India.
Through the night my first overnight, long bus journey in India. Sleep did not come… pretty much at all. Just before dawn, whilst it was still mostly dark, I arrived in Delhi at a bus park where I was to change buses to go to Jaipur. I found the second bus, and the …
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World Journeys Podcast – More Backpacking Europe (Episode 10 with Jock Read-Hill)
Join the conversation as we continue and conclude the chat with Jock Read-Hill about backpacking Europe, especially in the UK, France and Istanbul/Turkey. Jock takes up the capital city challenge as well - how will he do? Listen to find out in this highly entertaining episode of the World Journeys Podcast! Listen HERE! or …
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Foto Friday – Turkey & Iran Border
If only I took more photos at moments like this. After all-night spent on a bus from Tabriz, I arrived at the Turkish border, a few clouds moved to reveal some amazing mountains!
Train Journeys – Guilin to Shanghai
Everywhere I go, as you might have gathered, if I can take a train or two, I do. I took a couple in China, both over-nighters, and the most memorable was the one from Guilin to Shanghai. Leaving Guilin in the evening, and not arriving until mid-afternoon in Shanghai, I went the soft sleeper which …
The Kindness of Strangers
On Saturday I wrote a blog about my time in India in 1999. I talked about my experiences in Jalandhar where I was taken in by a family thanks to meeting someone on a bus and spending a few days staying with them, completely impromptu. It turned out to be probably the most rewarding experience …
Sunday Spotlight – Yangshuo
Let me take the Sunday Spotlight and shine it on the most beautiful spot in China that I have ever visited. Yangshuo is near Guilin, a town revered for its beautiful location by the Chinese. I travelled from Hong Kong, across the border to China and then by overnight train to Guilin, and in the …
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