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Boat Parking Lot! Mekong River at Pakbeng, deepest Laos, South East Asia:
I’ve not been to many places in Africa but it does intrigue me. Of course, it’s possible to travel independently in Africa but I wouldnt know where to start. I think going overland from Morocco (crossing from Gibraltar) and somehow getting all the way down to Cape Town would be a phenomenal journey. I’m guessing [...]
This was one of my memoirs (or email back home!) about my backpacking experiences in the Otago region of New Zealand: PHOTO’S AT BOTTOM OF BLOG – READ ON!
Came down West Coast of NZ; rainforest running right down to the pounding ocean, the stuff excellent seascape photography is made of. It rained a lot [...]
Wopwops! A term used by Kiwi’s to describe a vast area of remote bush country which aptly describes the stunning East Cape of New Zealand’s North Island, a fantastic example of classic wopwop land! Having spent two weeks driving from Opotiki to Napier I discovered an unspoilt, undeveloped and ruggedly scenic region that most backpackers [...]
When backpackers draw up a list of ‘must sees’ on their South American trip there’s a good chance Paraguay isn’t on it. I’ll be honest it wasn’t on mine. But it felt rude not to take a squizz at the landlocked nation considering we were only a few hundred metres away in neighbouring Brazil.
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Here is how to say ‘welcome’ in a few different languages from around the world!
So wherever you go travelling around the world, whether its America or Armenia, Sweden or Sudan you’ll know what to listen out for!
How to say welcome in Afrikaans ? Welkom
How to say welcome in Albanian ? Mirë [...]
How on earth is Nefyn on the idyllic Lleyn peninsula of North Wales twinned with Puerto Madryn, 8,000 miles away on the rugged coast of Patagonian Argentina? Surely this particular ‘twinning’ is the result of a blindfolded dart player and a world map?
I’m always a little bemused as to how towns in Britain are [...]
Here’s an excerpt from a journal I kept as I decided to ‘grade’ cherries for a small part of my life:
Travelled down West Coast of NZ; rainforest running right down to the pounding ocean, the stuff excellent seascape photography is made of. It rained a lot but that was understandable being a rainforest and [...]
Slap bang in the middle of the Bay of Plenty lies Rotorua, a fascinating little city with more than enough to keep even the most restless itchy-footed backpacker happy for a few days. This geothermal, heavily Maori influenced hot spot (literally) is only 2.5hrs from Auckland, an hour from the Mt Manganui beach and 2.5hrs [...]
Desperate to see the Bay Of Islands, in New Zealand’s northern tip, I decided to risk hitching. One of my colleagues at the local pub I worked at in Rotorua, the Pig and Whistle, clarified the risk element perfectly; ‘don’t hitch you’ll get murdered’. Cheers. I thought bugger it and went anyway (I had a [...]
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