Days not Homeless: 5 Years, 342 Days ...and loving every second of this alpine adventure!
Fistful of Kwacha
Malawi was looking like another of those countries where we may have been leaving the moment we arrived, with daily reported power cuts, poor Internet and a US Government website declaring that a letter of approval was required for Americans - we needed good Internet,...
South Luangwa
Quite possibly the best bit of travel advice we've been given was to add South Luangwa to our list of African destinations. Coupled with the Cape Epic mountain bike race this was the only thing planned in advance and definitely the costliest of anything we did whilst...
Land of a Thousand Hills
Our arrival into Kigali's small but modern airport late in the evening made us slightly apprehensive, mostly due to us having no idea as to the safety nor location of our accommodation. That was good enough reason to take the Ivuka Art Gallery transportation. Twenty...
Bunyonyi & Bwindi
Lake Bunyonyi and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park provided us an exciting insight into Uganda, a country that even in the six days we visited offered so much. We had planned to move beyond the extreme southwest corner but for two reasons had to reconsider - firstly...
Donations Welcome
During our time in Bwindi National Park in Southwest Uganda my wife Andrea and I made the decision to visit two community orphanages/ primary schools in an attempt to gain an insight into the conditions the local children have to endure; we were not prepared for what...
Remember Unite Renew
All we knew about Rwanda prior to our arrival was that at some point not too long ago they had suffered through a genocide and that more recently their Mountain Gorilla permits had been raised from $750 per person to $1500; something to do with wanting to attract a...
Chobe
Although premium lodges and high-end tourism are the norm in this landlocked country we did manage to survive on somewhat of a budget. We had already visited for a full hour whilst heading from Namibia to Zimbabwe, a brief encounter that included a dead zebra and...
Three Border Crossings
It was now time to leave Namibia behind, the last week spent on the narrow strip of land in the extreme north of the country known as the Caprivi Strip. We had pretty much based ourselves out of the eastern most points biggest town, Katima Mulilo, due to the fact that...
Etosha
Upon our arrival into Namibia’s main Hosea Kutako International Airport all we knew for sure was that we were going to be spending our first two nights at a decent airbnb in a decent part of the city, a perfect location for the short 5 minute walk to Joe’s Beerhouse;...
8 days of Cape Epic
Sunday March 18th had come around far too quickly and although only a short 20km prologue day there were still nerves in abundance! The relatively late 10:27.55 start time didn’t help. Were we prepared? Everything was packed away into the very nice looking Cape Epic...
Bribery in Bulgaria
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Castles and the Count
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Best of Buda and Pest
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Seven Nights in Slovakia
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Overpriced Coffee and Cakes
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Krakow and it’s Holocaust Neighbor
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Czech Republic
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Oktoberfest
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Liechtenstein in an Hour
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Tour du Mont Blanc
It wasn’t until reading an article on top hikes of the world that we jumped on the chance to hike the 110 miles around the tallest mountain in the Alps, a route known as the Tour du Mont Blanc. This was actually our second choice of European hike, the first being the...
This Time in 48 Hours
OK, so it’s almost time to get back on the road after spending the past few weeks chilling out and recuperating in Kentucky. Early on Thursday afternoon we take a short flight to Baltimore before heading out across the Atlantic, via Iceland, to London Gatwick. Almost...
Froze to Death Plateau
I spent a lot of time researching which peak I wanted to summit in the greater Yellowstone area. There were two at the top of my list, both of them the highest peaks in their states; Granite Peak in Montana and Gannett Peak in Wyoming. The shortest trail leading to...
The Lure of Glacier’s Backcountry
With a free weekend and a little apprehension, Andrea and I found ourselves in the Apgar backcountry office deciding on a permit to allow us to camp for two nights in Glacier National Park. We had a few ideas based on some online research, but we had no idea if we...
Hiking Yellowstone
I spent a week in Yellowstone for photography at the beginning of May so now it was time to return with Andrea. We reserved three nights at the Canyon campground located close to hikes, lodges, showers, and lots of wildlife. We added two additional nights after...
Four Days in the Dordogne
In 2003 there was a mass departure from Leicester! I moved to Florida in the United States and two of my close friends from the club packed up their belongings and headed to the Dordogne region in France. They love living in France and have a beautiful country home...
The Emerald Isle
I lived in England for 35 years so I have no excuse for never visiting the Republic of Ireland, a small picturesque country famous for leprechauns, its dramatic west coast and Guinness, amongst other things. Andrea and I decided to visit with my dad for a long...
The Land of Fire and Ice
The land of fire and ice, our first European stop, made for a perfect week long winter layover. Stopovers are heavily promoted by Icelandair with flights to the Nordic Island country costing around $650 return from Orlando, quite a bit cheaper than direct flights to...
The 51st State
We just love these thirty minute flights, especially flying JetBlue. No worries about overweight luggage, carry-on bags, or seats with zero legroom.Take note Spirit! Flying from St Maarten to Puerto Rico was the international leg of our homeward trip to South Florida,...
Chillin with Friends
Being only two and half months into a slow recovery from major hip surgery the offer to spend a 40th birthday celebration week with friends in the Caribbean was gratefully accepted. Neither of us had ever been to Dutch Sint Maarten or French St Martin, the two...
Nineteen Thousand Miles
With a mere twenty days separating our return from Lima, Peru to our departure around the west of the United States, it seemed like we had to be firing on all cylinders to ensure everything was ready. Going Broke, our 2008 Nissan Pathfinder, was purchased through a...
