Well, am I settling back? I'm trying. It does actually feel - as most people say - that I have not been away, sadly. The rain and cold doesn't help, and this is still summer here! The local area I left from, and lived in always, is still the same as are most people there …
Category: Travel Blog 2015-16
Journal entries from my year out solo backpacking round the world August 2015-June 2016
Homeward Bound
So, 10 months on from leaving the UK I am on my way home via Spain, where my last flight would leave from in Madrid, and Ibiza where Im meeting my daughters for a weeks holiday together - catching up, reviewing our year apart and chilling together. Or partying....! So exactly? I left on 31st …
Rio beaches…
So there is the city of Rio de Janeiro and its four main beaches, and then at Paraty (para-chi) where there are other beaches I visited on a day tour. The waves were crashing and it was dramatic, on rocky beaches all along the stretch from below the waterfall at Trinidade (trini-daje) at Cephilo. …
Paratay beach jumping
I saved a fish today! Went in the trip to the beaches ( really all one beach,,), walking along one with Jo the guide, she pointed out a beached fish gasping for water....so I picked it up, paddled in to the sea, and put it in deeper water but not above the waves and it …
Monkey business!
Amazing day in the Amazon!!!! After lunch at the lodge, we went out 3-6pm to the rescue site Monkey Island, where monkeys and other animals are set free after black market trades. There were woolly monkeys, squirrel monkey, capuchi monkeys too. We saw a 6ft Anaconda slithering to freedom after just arriving, whilst the other …
Amazon Adventure!
I've always been intrigued by the wild and scary Amazon I've seen on TV and read about, and the wildlife, tribes and flora - but the reality is different. It's serene, peaceful and the lifeblood of the people there, and there are animals and flora but so much morecpositive than I believed. And I fell in …
Camping in the Amazon!
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! …
Inca trail…
Well, Im on my way to Machu Picchu!! The Culmination perhaps of my year out to travel, this was the central point that the trip was built around! Wanting to get away from the world I wanted to go to the highest mountain in ... Peru ( the most distant place I could then imagine, …
Amazon again!
So on 21st April 2016 I returned to the beautiful, peaceful jungle! I went to the Maniti office next door to my hotel (purely accidental but very convenient!) for 8.45 am, for a 9am start. I found Rene was to be my guide this time and I was happy with that as he seemed nice …
Bored while travelling?! Why?
Why indeed, not something I ever expected. I thought that only happened at home in the past, but no, its here and now to! Why am I bored, even as some suggested here in New Zealand? Well, it seems a day to travel for just one day or part day tour, for me at least. …
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