Sometimes half the fun of seeing places is getting there. Uch Shariff is a small collection of beautiful Sufi Shrines in Pakistan. They are on the ‘tentative’ list of UNESCO heritage sites. Put simply we are talking about a small group of shrines kinda in the middle of nowhere on the outskirts of a little …
Today, trying to freak all you regular travellers out as usual, I think this is one is perhaps the most amazing of all. Bar one. That I've seen. No-one died, the pilot is a genuine hero after the engines took in some birds not long after take off. You might remember it. So anyways, this …
Continue reading Air Crash Investigation Classics – Hudson River Crash
In all my travels, I’m not sure I’ve been as impressed by an historical place as much as I was with the temples at Angkor, Cambodia. It wasn’t so easy to get to back then. A slowish train from Bangkok to the border between Thailand and Cambodia, and then I took an 8 hour ride …
Today my interviewee is Emily Luxton from Emily Luxton Travels (possibly related :P). Emily's blog is simply amazing, there is so much content on it and it's all of the highest quality, with plenty of guest posts as well so a great deal of the world gets covered. Enjoy! Hi! I'm Emily and I blog …
After I started this series with an utter disaster where the most people died in a single crash in the history of aviation, today I wanted to give you the other side of the story. This is the Qantas flight that basically had an engine explode mid-flight after taking off from Singapore in a brand …
Continue reading Air Crash Investigation Classic – Qantas A380
Hi folks! Today's re-blog takes me back to my last post for the year 2011, on the 20th of December. So, it's the last one before I headed back to Australia for Christmas and New Year, I'd be off again by March as I moved to Japan to live in 2012. My 2011 trip was …
Continue reading Re-blog Saturday – The End of the Road (Leaving Georgia)
A road trip in any country can be a great adventure, and Australia is no exception. For starters, we have a heck of a lot of road for the number of people here, and the distances are really quite substantial. For example, in my recent trip to Canberra I covered over 1400km, around Canberra (only …
Time I think for another 'Faces of'. I was initially going to do a 'Faces of Central Asia', combining Kyrgyzstan with Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, but when reviewing my photos from the region, I realised that I had more than enough photos of people from Kyrgyzstan alone. At Altyn Arashan, in the mountains in the region …
Saturday again, more stories from Georgia. This post dates from the 26th of November, 2011. Hello everyone Things continue here in Georgia, most days being filled with the English teaching and school matters. The weather here is diabolical - There was a day a couple of weeks ago when the weather in Batumi closed over …
Continue reading Re-blog Saturday – Time ticks away in Georgia
So. Another Friday - another picture of a much younger, thinner, energetic me. Here I am about to take a lift in this here fire engine in Amritsar to the Golden Temple. I was walking to the temple with a friend and we passed a couple of guys preparing the engine - it was going …
A Scottish island girl exploring the world on a budget
exposing the inner-world of my brain
My second blog page
Put pictures on your travel dreams
The beautiful picture of angels makes you happy.
inspiring journeys and friendly advice
A Scottish island girl exploring the world on a budget
exposing the inner-world of my brain
My second blog page
Put pictures on your travel dreams
The beautiful picture of angels makes you happy.
inspiring journeys and friendly advice
Andy Roams 