Kalalau Trail, Hawaii, USA, December 2015
Aloha! I have just returned from another brief escape – this time to hike the Kalalau Trail on Kauai Island in Hawaii. I am determined […]
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Switzerland and Liechtenstein by Train, August 2015
I’ve spent the last week in a jaunt criss-crossing Switzerland and the postage stamp – sized principality of Liechtenstein using the Swiss Rail network. It
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The Haute Route – walking the Swiss Alps, August 2015
It was time once again to challenge the physical body and so I have just returned sun-bronzed and weary from hiking the walker’s ‘Haute Route’
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Philippines Montaña y Mare, November 2014
Magandang araw! I’m writing after a brief escape to the Philippines which I fashioned into a montaña y mare (reef ‘n turf) adventure. I journeyed
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Lake Khuvsgul, Mongolia, August 2014
My trip ends by the shores of Lake Khuvsgul in northern Mongolia- the smaller sister of Lake Baikal in Siberia. So stark is the difference
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From Genghis to Stalin, Mongolia, July 2014
The Mongols have helped fill many chapters of the history books but this was another empire that crumbled back to dust. The Huns originated from
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The Gobi Desert, Mongolia, July 2014
Sain bainu! My latest adventure finds me in Central Asia doing an overland trip across Mongolia. I’ll take you on the journey from the Southern
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The Frankincense Trail, Oman, March 2014
My latest travels have taken me to the south of Oman, just a stone’s throw from the Yemen border. Close enough you say! Yes it’s
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The Sultan’s Palace, Oman, March 2014
It seems to me such a shame to arrive in an exotic land by ways of a generic international airport. I would very much have
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Of Gargoyles and the Flaming Green Fairy- Czech Republic, October 2013
My latest post comes from the Czech Republic whose lands were known in the Middle Ages as the Kingdoms of Bohemia and Moravia. While travelling
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From Belle Epoque to Eastern Bloc – Hungary, October 2013
I could easily wander the wide avenues and river banks of Budapest and be swept along by an innocent cosmopolitan romance. Much of the architecture
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So to Finnish – Finland & Estonia, July 2013
It’s been a long time between cathedrals but it has been a pleasant change to come in from the wilds and defrost among the architecture
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