The Friday Photo: Our Mahakam River Boat
I felt like Madame Mao taking this photo, signalling from the bank to get the boat in what I hoped was an appropriately scenic position...
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Our Big Australian Road Trip in Pictures
For the tightwad with a loose schedule, a relocation camper is the perfect way to travel Australia. This is the behemoth that brought us from...
This Frozen Hell
This Frozen Hell Everest Base Camp The Lazy Way, Day 12: Gokyo to Dragnag Dragnag is our jumping off point for the Cho-La, the Himalayan...
The Best Sunrise Ever?
Everest Base Camp The Lazy Way: Day 10-12 – Gokyo Ri It’s difficult to describe quite how insanely beautiful the landscape around Gokyo is. Reflecting...
First Impressions of Kathmandu
The term “sensory overload” could have been designed for Kathmandu, a medieval hill city, dirt poor, rich in ritual, dragging its ass into the twenty-first...
In Which I Do Battle with a Travel Blogging Calendar
A couple of months ago, I unwisely signed up to The Travel Blogging Calendar. Yes, a travel blogging calendar. This is, as the name would...
Making Ourselves at Home in Cihangir, Istanbul
“I don’t know where that is,” says the guy, poring over the address I’ve hand-copied. “Just walk.” “Walk?!” I say. I mean, I know we’re...
Ballooning in Cappadocia – Photos!
Call me an optimist, if you will, but I only remember that I have vertigo as the alarm bursts into life at 4am to wake...
This Frozen World, Like Snow in Midsummer
Pamukkale, honestly, took my breath away.Trundling through the plains and mountains of Central Turkey, a vast white slope emerges from nowhere, as if a giant...
Kittens, Egypt
As we gear up to move on from Egypt, a country that alternates between inducing utter rage and intense affection, I thought I’d get around...