WORLDWIDE | Wednesday, 1 Feb 2012 | Views [384]
For me personally, travel affords me the time and perspective to think about the challenges around us. Time that you rarely seem to get during the day to day life of operating a business.
Time.
Your time. Time as your most precious asset.... Read more >
Tags: 2012, doing, focus, time
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 9 Jul 2011 | Views [1220]
Having now had an iPad since it was first launched, I'm a complete convert and rarely travel with a laptop these days. Not only is it more portable, it's legendary battery life makes it superb for long haul flights and if it gets stolen or lost it ... Read more >
MYANMAR | Friday, 10 Jun 2011 | Views [325]
The little girl must have been perhaps four years old, was wearing what looked suspiciously like an old sack converted into a dress with no underwear let alone shoes, and was rolling around the rusted deck of the old river ferry excitedly screaming ... Read more >
Tags: burma, kyat, memories, travel with children
JAPAN | Sunday, 3 Apr 2011 | Views [327] | Video
I've just come across this English translation of a blog written by a nurse who volunteered to help in the Tsunami devastated region of Iwate. Doesn't need much of an introduction but makes for sober reading. It starts with "To the affected areas"... Read more >
Tags: earthquake, japan, nurse, tsunami
BHUTAN | Sunday, 12 Dec 2010 | Photo Gallery
Photo's from the 2010 Travel Photography Scholarship with Jason Edwards. (Only a rough selection until I get a chance to review properly ...)
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ECUADOR | Thursday, 28 Oct 2010 | 
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Photo's from the trip to Ecuador with Gap adventures to make a documentary on two schools we are helping to fund together.
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ECUADOR | Wednesday, 27 Oct 2010 | Views [426]
You could feel it in the morning air: this was going to be one of those special and extraordinary days, the ones you hope for but can't engineer nearly often enough.
Here you've got to be up early to catch the soft, gentle light ... Read more >
Tags: documentary, ecuador, footprints network, gap adventures, hope, philanthropy
FRANCE | Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 | Views [3383]
Years ago travelling before the age of the internet, people would actually talk to each other in cafés and meeting places. Sadly, today all I seem to see are travellers hunched in internet cafés, desperate to stay connected to family and friends back ... Read more >
Tags: ebooks, ipad, mapping, mobile, planning, r&d, travel, wifi
FRANCE | Wednesday, 7 Jul 2010 | Flickr Photo Gallery
From our 10 days in Paris this Summer
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FRANCE | Tuesday, 6 Jul 2010 | Views [483]
The eastern edge of the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris is often a photographers gallery organised by the city along some theme or other. As it happens, the theme to day was on Nomads. Real Nomads of the world and their culture. We've often struggled ... Read more >
Tags: ethinic, lives, nomad, paris, philosophy, world
CHINA | Monday, 26 Apr 2010 | Views [638] | Video
Yes, travel has a way of doing that to you. This superb little travel video describes a journey across China by Christoph Rehage in 2008 and demonstrates quite well that it's still possible to make your own extraordinary adventures these days. ... Read more >
Tags: adventure, china, nomad, travel tale, walk, wandering
NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 18 Apr 2010 | Views [907] | Video
This video isn't mine but, for anyone who has ever been diving, makes for compelling viewing. One Victor Huang was diving at Wellington, New Zealand and he spotted a wild octopus that he thought he'd video. The octopus however had other ideas and ... Read more >
Tags: adventure, chase, diving, new zealand, octopus, video
EGYPT | Wednesday, 20 Jan 2010 | Views [383]
Time. It does the strangest things when you travel. Three weeks goes past in the blink of an eye when occupied with home, kids, school or work, but the same time travelling, filled with new experiences and rich memories not only seems to stretch and ... Read more >
Tags: reading, travel, travel literature, travel photography
EGYPT | Sunday, 10 Jan 2010 | Views [734] | Comments [2]
Everyone travels differently but this is a list of a few special extras we pack as a family, apart from all the standard stuff you need. Our boys are now Riu aged 7 and kai aged 5. No need for strollers: this is the first time this has been ... Read more >
Tags: egypt, tips, travel with a family, travel with children
EGYPT | Saturday, 9 Jan 2010 | Photo Gallery
Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Aswan & Abu Simbel. www.flickr.com/photos/simonmonk/
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Tags: aswan, egypt, luxor, nile
EGYPT | Friday, 1 Jan 2010 | Views [1137]
January 1st 2010 finds us staying with a Nubian called Mustafa who definitely has the house with the best view in the whole of Aswan. Perched on the roof as the sun sets over the Nile and the desert beyond, you can pretend that ... Read more >
Tags: aswan, flat, india, new year, nubian
EGYPT | Monday, 28 Dec 2009 | Views [690] | Comments [1]
"Well that was a nice easy day. We didn't do much". "No" replied Yuki "Just six tombs in the valley of the Kings and Tutenkamun's tomb" We looked at each other and laughed aloud. Travelling in Egypt can we a bit ... Read more >
Tags: archaelogy, pharoh, tombs, valley of the kings
EGYPT | Sunday, 27 Dec 2009 | Photo Gallery
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EGYPT | Sunday, 27 Dec 2009 | Views [937]
Well that was exciting! Waiting in Cairo airport for our flight to Luxor, we weren't particularly surprised or alarmed when 'flight delayed' appeared on the departures board. The flight was supposed to be 40 minutes late. So with 10 minutes ... Read more >
Tags: flights, mishap, travel with children
EGYPT | Friday, 25 Dec 2009 | Views [620]
Anyone thinks Cairo is a dirty and polluted third world city then they obviously haven't been to a dirty and polluted third world city. While the traffic crawls along, the traffic lights are ignored and the driving is pretty haphazard, at least your ... Read more >
Tags: cairo, clothes, tutankhamun
EGYPT | Monday, 21 Dec 2009 | Views [461]
"I don't want to go to the Pyramids" said Kai after breakfast, acutely unaware of the oldest man-made structure on earth just down the road. Everything about the Pyramids is simply awe inspiring: their size, their age, their accuracy.... Read more >
Tags: cairo, pyramids, touts
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 19 Dec 2009 | Views [911]
Travel these days inevitably starts with Google, which for people who like to organise their own travel arrangements is wonderful in that it enables you to find and book the most obscure little experts or services that had no chance barely 10 ... Read more >
Tags: iphone, mobile, trip planning
THAILAND | Sunday, 20 Sep 2009 | Views [1747] | Video
On the wall of my son's bedroom is a large photo spread from the Guardian newspaper of a remarkable market in Thailand that operates around and along a short but fully operational stretch of track. I have never been but will seek this out next time I'm ... Read more >
Tags: design, ingenuity, market, people, thailand, train
INDONESIA | Saturday, 8 Aug 2009 | Photo Gallery
Yet another trip to Bali with the family
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INDONESIA | Saturday, 1 Aug 2009 | Views [702] | Comments [1] | Video
In our younger days one of the great joys of travel was to just wander, to have no real plan except to get lost and see what eventuated. Sometimes it really didn't work and we'd end up in some tricky situations, more often than not it was a pleasing ... Read more >
Tags: bali, beauty, island, volcano
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