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Travelling in the 90s: cool places like Sherwood Forest, York, moors
And now for more Travelling in the 90s — tripping back in time to 1994 and my road trip around the UK. Last installment from my travel journal saw us in Scotland and we’ve now come south again to hang...
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Endurance: Ring of Brodgar
About ten years ago I visited Scotland for the second time. I took a six day small group tour right around the country, which included a day in the Orkney Isles. The neolithic village of Skara Brae...
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Travelling in the 90s: last days in London
And now for more Travelling in the 90s — tripping back in time to 1994 and my last few days in the UK… [Saturday 29 January, 1994] Yesterday we headed back to London via Oxford. We wandered around for...
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Descent – ways with water
I’m taking an engineering viewpoint on this week’s photo challenge theme of Descent. Because I’ve long been fascinated and thrilled by the way our forefathers used the controlled descent of water under...
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Contemplating Wild China
I’m starting to think about my next adventure. And it’s exciting. Where in the world (literally) shall I go next? I was originally intending to trek around Mont Blanc in central Europe. It’s a 180km...
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Travelling in the 90s: In which we hit Paris
We’re on the homeward stretch in my Travelling in the 90s series, which features extracts from my original travel journal in 1993-1994. This was my first ever trip overseas, taken after I finished my...
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Travelling in the 90s: Parisian culture
It’s back to 1994 Paris for the latest installment of Travelling in the 90s. Here we have more of my ramblings from 21 years ago, with bad photos and far too many exclamation marks (most of which I...
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Hey, what about those Herculaneum papyrus scrolls?
Sometimes I can be guilty of thinking life might be simpler without modern technology. Despite the fact I’m a technologist at heart. But then I hear about something that takes my breath away, and I’m...
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Travelling in the 90s: Provence (in the steps of Madam, will you Talk?)
Flights have been booked today for my next overseas adventure — Huzzah! All will be revealed in time; but in the short term I’m going to focus on wrapping up the Travelling in the 90s series. There’s...
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Walls of the old stone variety
When I travel, I take a fair few photos of walls. Particularly old stone walls, usually up close so you can see the way they’ve been constructed. For this week’s WordPress photo challenge, with the...
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Travelling in the 90s: The Carnival of Venice
We’re into the final two weeks of our 1993-1994 (Travelling in the 90s) adventure (back when I was a true natural blond — check out the photo). Venice was our first stop in Italy and undoubtedly one of...
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Travelling in the 90s: Florence is freezing
Meanwhile, at the tail end of my 1993-1994 adventures, we’re in Italy. Having just experienced the Carnival of Venice, we’re now en route to Firenze. Welcome to Travelling in the 90s… [Saturday 12...
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Gone on a journey…
I’m in Mongolia — how cool is that? Today I leave the city of Ulaan Baatar to join a two-week horse riding expedition through some national parks and across the Steppes. There will be no electricity or...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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