Highlights of Morocco – Mountains and desert
This third and penultimate Morocco post covers the middle section of Intrepid’s Best of Morocco trip — the wild, scenic and adventurous week between Fes and Essaouira.
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Our day in the ancient city of Fes featured plenty of artisans' shops, including the famous tannery, textiles and ceramics. Also discovered chicken pastilla - yum!
View ArticleMongolia Journal ~ Shenanigans on the steppes
Day 10 of our horse trek involved very bad hair, escaping horses and other mirth-inducing high jinks on the Mongolian steppes.
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Mongolia Journal ~ Just another day on the steppes — with video
My next trip (July) will be a week in Broome with the extended family. In the meantime, let’s return to Mongolia… 3 July 2015 Breakfast – Day 9 Breakfast seems earlier today. Not sure why. It’s maybe...
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Travelling in the 90s: Last days in Rome and Perugia
And so we come to the final post of this epic series featuring extracts of my 1993-1994 travel journal… We’ve just come from Pompeii and Naples to spend our last couple of days in Rome, including a day...
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Travelling in the 90s: Naples and Pompeii
It must be time for an actual trip, right? Well, not today… Today I’m knocking off the penultimate post of my Travelling in the 90s series, which features extracts from my 1993-1994 travel journal —...
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Mongolia Journal ~ Genghis Khan Monument
Day 7 of Mongolian horse trek, 2015… 1 July 2015 Morning – Day 7 (Tuul River) I haven’t climbed out of the tent yet. I hear snoring from the next tent, the ripple of the river, horses munching, birds...
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Mongolia journal ~ Rivers and words
Exactly two years ago I was in the middle of my Mongolian horse trek. TWO YEARS AGO! It’s so hard to believe… (I’m definitely due for a new adventure!) This is a short post about our sixth day of...
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Mongolia Journal ~ Terelj NP
It’s been a little while between posts, but this is the fourth edited extract from my Mongolia Journal, covering day 5 of my two-week horse trek in 2015. With photos! It’s hard to believe it was almost...
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Mongolia Journal ~ 3 Getting into the swing of things (with eagles!)
This is the third edited extract from my Mongolia Journal, covering days 3 and 4 of my two-week horse trek. With photos! 27 June 2015 Lunch stop – Day 3 We’re at lunch in a long flat valley with a...
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Mongolia Journal ~ 2 Into the steppes
I’ve finally got my act together and have started blogging edited extracts (and PHOTOS) from my Mongolia travel journal. If you missed the first post, it’s here — First Impressions. This post covers...
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Mongolia journal ~ 1 First impressions
It’s over a year since my Mongolian adventure, and I haven’t got near all the blog posts I was going to write. Thank goodness I kept a daily journal, or I’d have forgotten so much already. I always...
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Travelling in the 90s: Venerable Rome
It’s been a year since I posted the last extract from my 1993-1994 travel journal for the Travelling in the 90s series. I’ve been distracted. But there’s only a couple of weeks of Italy to go on the...
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A day at the races, Mongolian Nadaam style…
It’s been hard to avoid horse racing in Melbourne this week. The Melbourne Cup carnival seems to get more hyped every year, and all week it’s been a frenzy of fashion, ridiculous weather and...
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The treacherous footpaths of Ulaan Bataar
Before I went to Mongolia, my aunt said to take a torch. Well, doh! I’m camping… “No, not for the camping. For the footpaths in Ulaan Bataar. They’re really dangerous at night! You could hurt...
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Horse trekking in Mongolia – part 2
I started to tell you about Mongolia… and then I got distracted by houses getting demolished and an epic night of D&D. But today we return to the steppes and the horses. The earlier post (part 1)...
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Riding into the storm
This is a blatant leveraging of the weekly photo challenge theme of half and half as an excuse to publish more photos (and tell a story) from my recent trip to Mongolia — a land of big sky, spectacular...
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Horse trekking in Mongolia – part 1
I’m now back from my latest international adventure, the focus of which was a two-week horse trek across the steppes of Mongolia. It was an amazing trip: challenging, inspiring, fascinating. And boy...
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A glimpse of Mongolia
It’s a bit hard to fully capture Mongolia in photos, so I took a short (30s) video, in which you can briefly meet the horse I rode for two weeks… Filed under: Travel Tagged: culture, Mongolia, travel,...
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