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: Traveller Insights
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 …
Moments….
Moments come infrequently - even when travelling. This evening was a moment, frozen in time for me! Arriving in Te Anau at th e lake about 1.20 pm today, from the lovely alpine town of lively Queenstown, the beautiful glacial lake - 342 m around, 400 m deep and sitting 300 m above sea level …
Journeys end…or a beginning
"Its the journey that's important, not the destination" So true. Some of the best experiences have been the journeys between places I've stopped at. Over the mountains in Vang Vien in Loas, the train up to Chaing Mai, or the dusty roads of Kangaroo Island Australia, and the west coast trip to Greymouth here in …
A day in the Life …
..of a traveller.. Today is Thursday, 18 Feb and I got up in Napier, leaving at 9 am on the Naked Bus* to Wellington New Zealand and breakfasted in Hastings down the road half an hour. I am able to use my bargain Naked Passport bus ticket (30 trips between towns for just $246 or …
New Year Reflection
Here in Australia we had NY almost first (NZ gets that) so was weird. Ours over and done when you got it!!! Just back from 'up the river (Murray)' for a few days this year, and me in a tent. First night with Remmy, my great nephew and the second on my own as he …
Time out from tavelling
I found, in the Blue Light Hostel in Wairaki, a respite from the sometimes weary world of travelling over a long period. Now in my seventh month, I can feel it taking its toll. Whether that relates to the weeks of 'normal' life in Australia with sisters, perhaps too. Glass lily pads in a Taupo …
Re-starting my life through travel
Reading Nomadic Matts latest blog post on travel films to watch on flights and scenery of the movies, two phrases struck me - that I relate to. The title one and 'its not what you carry but what you carry inside of you'. My year out travelling 'the world' is only a tiny part of …
The inevitable bug!
...arrived on my way to Malaysia, so presumably caught in Thailand en route. But where, and when?! I racked my brains but there is no definitive answer is there? It could ne food go e off - I had tum yam prawns at my stay over hotel at Sunarnaphumi airport Bangkok, but it was starting …
Too busy doing not writing!
Highlights so far have been: Diving the barrier reef on Silver Swift with my nephew, Sam, supervising the boat! I snorkelled to get me into it, then got to do two intro dives with very basic skills and holding on mostly to each other in fours with a qualified diver guide. I did have a …
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