UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 5 Jan 2010 | Views [179]
This CV
outlines my travels experience to date and is aimed at prospective employers,
to highlight my experience and knowledge and my commitment to travel and the
outdoor life.
Travelling
mainly independently, I have now visited 98 ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 3 Jan 2010 | Views [32]
About a year ago I bought a netbook, a handy sized laptop
which I though would be ideal to take travelling, for connecting to the net and
writing articles on. I took it on a few weekend trips but didn’t use it much
and often found that the wifi zones ... Read more >
Tags: laptops, netbooks, wifi, hostels, hotels, internet, observations
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
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VIETNAM | Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 | Views [242]
This week I entered Vietnam from Southern Laos, through the small border post of Bo Y, which has only recently been opened to foreigners. My bus then headed down highway 14 towards Da Nang following the valley of the PoKo River. I had heard that Southern ... Read more >
Tags: cities, on the road, restaurants, historic sights, typhoons
LAOS | Sunday, 18 Oct 2009 | Views [308] | Comments [2]
Southern Laos used to be one of the backwaters of South East Asia and rarely visited by travelers. For me it was one of the few places in the region I hadn't been too but I’d seen pictures at a lecture some years ago of the rapids on the Mekong that ... Read more >
Tags: islands, rivers, travellers places, waterfalls, temples, visas, borders, laos
LAOS | Sunday, 18 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
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THAILAND | Saturday, 10 Oct 2009 | Views [598] | Comments [3]
More pictures Many travelers have mixed feelings about Khao San Road, the travelers ‘district’ in Bangkok. Its not the real Bangkok, its tawdry and commercial and is pitched only at the Westerns who are just passing through. It’s fairly unique though, ... Read more >
Tags: cities, on the road
THAILAND | Saturday, 10 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
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MALAYSIA | Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009 | Views [117]
In the mid nineties I
traveled all over South East Asia passing through Malaysia
several times and I managed to explore most of the country including getting
over to Borneo. It has always been a favorite
of mine, a mix of cultures with a ... Read more >
Tags: cities, on the road
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 3 Sep 2009 | Views [148]
I have created a second blog at TravellerWill which is for shorter pieces of travel writing
and general thoughts. Take a look. On my forthcoming trip to South East Asia I
shall be jumping between blogs, with the World Nomads blog ... Read more >
Tags: observations
URUGUAY | Thursday, 27 Aug 2009 | Views [229]
Years ago, when I was first planning my trip to South
America I was looking at a map and saw that on the Argentine/Uruguay border was
a small town called Frey Bentos. A name from past, when corned beef was a staple
part of the British diet ... Read more >
Tags: museums
URUGUAY | Thursday, 27 Aug 2009 | Photo Gallery
Views ot the Anglo Meat Factory
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GREECE | Wednesday, 5 Aug 2009 | Views [300]
One of my
favourite places to trek in Europe is around Loutro a village/resort in
district of Sfakia on Crete’s South Coast. It nestles around a small bay, the
only natural harbour on the South Coast and there has been a settlement here
since ... Read more >
Tags: trekking route descriptions, beaches
GREECE | Wednesday, 5 Aug 2009 | Photo Gallery
Some of the landmarks you'll see if you follow the trekking routes described.
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TUNISIA | Tuesday, 21 Oct 2008 | Photo Gallery
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TUNISIA | Monday, 20 Oct 2008 | Views [304]
Unusually for me I have just visited Tunisia on a package tour, the first bucket and spade package I’ve ever been on. Convenience and cost were a factor of course plus the fact it was a new country only 2 ½ hours flying time away; but Tunisia has been ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, cities, arab culture
COLOMBIA | Friday, 25 May 2007 | Views [1354]
I’ve had a number of mails recently from people asking about safety in Colombia and I thought it would be useful to place things in context. The picture above is a chart in a Colombian bus station, which are displayed in all the bus stations in the country.... Read more >
Tags: Observations
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 30 Apr 2007 | Views [841] | Comments [1]
There comes a point in every trip when you realize that there are only a few weeks left and you have to come to terms with going home. For most of us that means reconnecting with their previous life and going back to work, the free and easy days of ... Read more >
Tags: philosophy of travel
INDIA | Wednesday, 14 Mar 2007 | Views [3298] | Comments [3]
I’ve now been in India for almost three months. It’s
always been a favourite country of mine, a place that’s always been very good
for the ‘WOW’ factor, always full of surprises. Even in the centre of the
cities you can see people on the ... Read more >
Tags: Observations
NEPAL | Sunday, 11 Mar 2007 | Views [1384] | Comments [3]
Nepal has had rather a mixed press over the last few years; countries going through a Civil War tend not to be on the list of ‘must see’ places for most travelers. Since late 2006, the countryside has been quiet with the Maoists now in the government ... Read more >
Tags: Observations
INDIA | Wednesday, 14 Feb 2007 | Views [1778] | Comments [5]
I really enjoy Indian food but had never considered cooking it at home; after all if I wanted to eat it, it always seemed easier to walk out to an Indian restaurant or pick up the phone and order a take away, than go to the trouble of making it myself.... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 24 Dec 2006 | Views [2194] | Comments [2]
Many travelers have some apprehension when they go abroad, especially if traveling alone for the first time. Despite what you may think from the media, most people’s trips are trouble free and violence against tourists is particularly rare. Of course ... Read more >
Tags: travel tips
SOUTH AFRICA | Saturday, 23 Dec 2006 | Views [1729] | Comments [1]
For most of 2006 I have been traveling in South America as a backpacker and had enjoyed how easy it was to travel there. The quality of budget hotels was good and transport was affordable and mainly comfortable. In most cities I went around by ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Tips
TANZANIA | Saturday, 16 Dec 2006 | Views [1621]
Zanzibar , even the name has an exotic ring to it and conjures up images of Sultans, Spices and Slaves. One of the great island ports of the mystic east, ships traded the goods of Africa, the Middle East, and India and out across the Indian Ocean to ... Read more >
Tags: Observations
TANZANIA | Thursday, 7 Dec 2006 | Views [1282]
By chance I caught up with the ATC truck I’d been traveling on when I saw it stopped at lights in Dar es Salaam; I then spent a day with everyone at a beach on Zanzibar. What was surprising was the contrast to the experience I had had and the current ... Read more >
Tags: Observations
BOTSWANA | Tuesday, 21 Nov 2006 | Views [3143] | Comments [1]
I had heard several stories from travelers about the overland trucks that do the route from South Africa up to Kenya, and most of them were bad. They seemed to have spent their trip with people who spend most of the time drunk or were just noisy ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Tips
SOUTH AFRICA | Friday, 20 Oct 2006 | Views [1570]
Most Backpackers who travel in South Africa stick pretty much to the coastal route from Cape Town to Jo’berg and totally ignore the interior. But there are some great places to visit just off the coastal route which really reward those who seek them ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
ARGENTINA | Saturday, 23 Sep 2006 | Views [4731] | Comments [1]
After nine months travelling through South America it is now time to move on, so I though a retrospective might be in order. Best Country It has to be Peru, a country with world class sights, mountains, great trekking and a well developed ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Tips
ARGENTINA | Thursday, 7 Sep 2006 | Views [3529] | Comments [4]
Some areas of the world have particular things that define them, and although a good idea they are only found in one continent or region and nowhere else. This even applies to electrical appliances and for Central and South America one of the defining ... Read more >
Tags: travel tips
ARGENTINA | Thursday, 7 Sep 2006 | Photo Gallery
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ARGENTINA | Wednesday, 6 Sep 2006 | Views [2230]
Unlike every other South American country I’ve seen on this trip, Argentina is a country I have visited before, on a two week holiday in which I went to Buenos Aires and Patagonia, flying around the country in order to see as much as I could in the ... Read more >
Tags: Observations
URUGUAY | Monday, 14 Aug 2006 | Views [7644] | Comments [17]
I've had a number of mails recently asking me how much does it cost to travel in South America, and although it's nice to hear from people I thought it may be easier to write one post everyone can read. For this survey there are three expense zones ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Tips
PARAGUAY | Wednesday, 9 Aug 2006 | Views [1214] | Comments [2]
Paraguay has always struck me as an interesting place to travel too, partly because I’ve never met anyone else who has been here and I wondered why. All the backpacker/travelers routes in South America avoid it, a place where bad things happen perhaps? ... Read more >
Tags: Observations
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 27 Jul 2006 | Photo Gallery
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BRAZIL | Thursday, 6 Jul 2006 | Views [4579]
There is something special about reaching a place after a long boat trip, especially when it is along a river. One of the places I’ve always wanted to visit was Manaus on the Amazon, having read as a child the epic story to build an Opera House there ... Read more >
Tags: Observations
BOLIVIA | Monday, 26 Jun 2006 | Views [787]
Having in the last year been marooned in a town in Ecuador for a week by protesters blocking the main roads and having just escaped the same thing near Cusco, I thought that the days of being held hostage by indigenous people was over, especially as ... Read more >
Tags: Observations
BOLIVIA | Tuesday, 20 Jun 2006 | Views [3303] | Comments [3]
Rurrenabaque in the North East of Bolivia has become a major backpacker’s center for organized trips into the jungle and pampas that surround the town. For many travelers a Pampas trip, along with biking the Death Road and taking a tour on the Salar ... Read more >
Tags: Observations
BOLIVIA | Monday, 19 Jun 2006 | Views [3592] | Comments [6]
Uyuni is the kicking off point for trips into the Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt pan in the world and a must on most visitors’ itineraries to Bolivia . The trip out to the lake also usually includes the dramatic landscape to the south of the lake, ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Tips
BOLIVIA | Thursday, 8 Jun 2006 | Views [1384]
Posati which at 4000 meters is the highest city/town of it's size in the world. At one time it was the richest city in the world, it's wealth built on the conical hill Cerro Rico (Rich Mountain) which dominates the town and which was mined for it's ... Read more >
Tags: Observations
PERU | Monday, 29 May 2006 | Views [1380] | Comments [1]
This is a great trek, a wonderful upland walk with great views and lots of birds and flowers to see along the way. There is easy access from Cusco but you only have to walk for a few hours before you are in an isolated wilderness. We did this independently ... Read more >
Tags: Trekking Route Descriptions
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