Category: World travel
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Cruisin’
A cheerful jaunt from LA to Baja California and back, on a floating city of fun
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Back in the saddle… California
Sometimes you drop off the writing wagon for a while. Sometimes for more than a while. Perhaps the truth is that, when you‘ve done the trip of trips, around the world mainly by train, with scrapes, spills and strange men trying to sell you raccoons, all else seems pedestrian in the world of holidays. But…
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From Cape to Grape… Moving on in South Africa
Cape Town and surrounds had been brilliant, however it was now time that we moved on and saw some more of what South Africa had to offer. We decided that we wanted to see both Stellenbosch and Franschoek, a bit of a whistle stop tour since Addo was calling, and there was a fair bit…
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The many faces of Cape Town: A whistle stop tour
It was probably fortuitous that we’d saved the Proper Sightseeing for a few days in, since Mark’s epic lurgy was showing no signs of abating. Our first destination? Robben Island. Robben Island Much like Auschwitz, I wouldn’t regard a trip to Robben Island as a particularly bouncy, fun day. However, like Auschwitz there are some…
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Travel kitlist: Getting them all lined up
Now, excuse my bluntness, but a lot of travel advice is bollocks. As an example, if you took the combined advice of the American and UK foreign offices as to which countries are safe and which are not, you’d never leave home. FOREIGN DANGER everywhere. It would be irresponsible of me to advise the adoption…
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Blasts from the past: Rekawa Beach, Sri Lanka 2018
In changing my blog editor I’ve come across a few nuggets from past travels. Since I hate deleting things, please enjoy this unfinished symphony from 2018… My journey down from Tissa was relatively painless, as first experiences of bussing it in Sri Lanka go. Being on the bus at its origin is a good tactic,…
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Destination: Cape Town
Planning to fail, failing to plan… We’d had a long think about places and in the end, planning for a January holiday means that you need to think far flung, for the chance of anywhere with sun, if of course sun is a desirable thing. By the time January actually arrived, after several of the…
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Travels with the Pip part 4: Moving down the coast
An enjoyable meander down the nice end of Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. Dogs, sloths, sketchy Italian restauranteurs and a whole lot of craft beer.
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Travels with the Pip part 3: Tortuguero
Zooming around Costa Rica’s Northwestern coast in a variety of sketchy small boats and a bit of civilised Costa Rican domestic aviation…just don’t mention the boots.
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Travels with the Pip part 2: Costa Rica’s lumpy bits
A whistle stop highlands tour in a tiny 4×4. What could possibly go wrong?!
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