I didn't like where I stayed last night in Da Nang after choosing against the great looking hostel online via hostel world or booking.com, so decide to try the beach having sen My An which was lovely. However, Looking for places I realised there was one a little higher up ( the map) from …
Category: Travel Blog 2015-16
Journal entries from my year out solo backpacking round the world August 2015-June 2016
Chill Out Zone
As part of being 'a traveller' I am learning to take down time. That is slowing down, sitting and watching, sitting and thinking, wandering the streets with a vague direction but no definite plans, and even just staying 'home' - wherever that might be at the time - just pottering, playing, writing or resting. Although …
The Path of Least Resistance
Something I'm learning from Asia, take the easier route if it comes to choices. That's not say don't chose but sometimes you may be like me and go for the choice that is 'right' in a social sense, or win for all. But this doesn't always benefit me in the end, although I don't lose …
Jungle camp!
When we camped, which is usually the last night of the tours - hadn't been sure whether to go or not, and Susan and Tom had returned to Iquitos the previous day - I didn't realise this and just thought I was going on a new jungle walk so didn't tale anything like extra clothes! …
Air Head!
Hmmm, something I wasn't really expecting was the re-adjustment when you get back 'home' from travelling. Whether almost a year like me or four weeks away as my daughter did, we both felt our head was full of air, space, cotton wool - just unable to fully focus back on reality! It has taken me weeks …
Finding inspiration all around you…
As a motivational coach, motivation is what motivates me! Inspiration is part of that, something that ‘turns you on’ and gets you all excited and in flow! Memes do that for me sometimes, and for others, as Facebook is full of them to read and share!But what else can motivate or inspire you? Well, lots …
Spanish Tales
Backtracking on my travels, now, I have yet to finish blog posts for every place I visited. So backtracking indeed, I ended up in Spain before my return to the UK so here are some tales of my time there. I had to land in Madrid from S. America - Lima, Peru to be precise. …
One year ago today …
ONE YEAR AGO today, I was setting off on my travel year! I was actually going to live my dream of 30+ years, and backpack solo around a chunk of this big, wide world we live in! My photo at Larcomar in the City of Condors, Lima, Peru I knew one day I would go, …
Relaxed Rio…
Rio de Janeiro, and in fact all of Brazil, was quieter than I had expected. From Iguassu Falls, just over the border from Peru, arriving from the Amazon via Lima, was a quiet town - tourists abounded on the buses to the falls, both in Brazil and Argentina (yes, it is to long it spreads into …
Unfolding secret histories!
Today, 6th July 2016, almost a year on from starting my years travel, I met up with a friend Ray and his wife Khammah, who I stayed with in Ubon Ratchathani last September. When I visited them in Khamma's village where they live and have a house (Ray spends some time here in the UK …
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