Hi all just a brief post today, I am quite under the weather at the moment 😦 I wanted to share a link with you to another blog post from a blog called 'My Wanderlist' I recently discovered. Brad writes some great stuff, but this blog post of a couple of days ago was worrying. …
Sunday Spotlight: Lahore
During the week someone lay down the challenge to me to write about Lahore, so here I am responding to the challenge. Now, Pakistan is probably not right at the top of anyone’s travel itinerary right now. It’s not really the safest of countries and hasn’t been for a few years. I went ten years …
The Interac Experience Part Two – Settling In
Last Saturday I began a recounting of the tale of working for Interac and living in Japan. I wrote about the first week, the training at the Toyoko Inn at Narita, and the way everything was conducted. Today I move on to recounting how it was heading up to Iwate and settling in, the gap …
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Liebster Award Nomination
Howdy folks! I have been nominated for a Liebster award! It’s very exciting, I’ve seen a number of blogs nominated out there and thanks to JP Chartier, and his blog Gutter Pup Adventures I have now been nominated which means I have a list of questions to answer and blogs to nominate and so forth! …
Foto Friday – Smiles in Mali
I thought I would do a regular, short Friday spot where I would present one photo and let people comment. 2007, I went trekking at the Dogon Escarpment in Mali. Stunning place, where the Earth shifted at some point dramatically and there is a giant cliff in the middle of nowhere. Villages on top and …
Train Journeys – Kandy to Colombo
It’s Thursday and I’m taking to the tracks again. This time I’m headed to Sri Lanka, a place I visited in early 2013 with my wife and we stayed about 10 days there, mostly in Kandy. We took just the one train trip whilst there, although more were planned, but that day turned out to …
Short Journeys: Central Asia
Hi all. Just a quick mid-week post to let you all know that I have combined my Short Journeys: Kazakhstan & Short Journeys: Kyrgyzstan & Uzbekistan books together to make Short Journeys: Central Asia. It seemed a logical thing to do, to pair them together in case someone was interested in all three countries. This …
Beautiful Vintgar Gorge, Slovenia
Howdy all! Today I want to take you to a seriously beautiful place on this planet, in a country in Southern Europe you might not have visited but if not, should definitely be on your list! Slovenia is a wonderful mix of history and nature. Ljubljana is an amazing capital with a castle, rivers, gorgeous …
Sunday Spotlight – Lome, Togo
Let’s be honest, Lome is probably NOT at the top of your list of places you want to see in your lifetime. Togo is a small, and very thin country in West Africa, between Ghana and Benin, and although it’s pleasant enough, there just isn’t a lot of reasons to head there. BUT, if you …
The Interac Experience Part One – Arrival and Orientation
It was a strange day when I arrived in Tokyo – well Narita Airport, actually in Chiba, in 2012. My wife and I had had to drop our honeymoon plans because I had been told that training for Interac would begin in April, but in fact started on the 20th of March. We’d got married …
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