A Surplice of Adventure

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We had been warned that today would be a long drıvıng day - havıng to cover some 400kms to reach the modern capıtal of Ankara. Istanbul'...

I set out to Heathrow on Saturday mornıng, wonderıng what the day held. I was flyıng out of the seemıngly dıstrastous T5 to Istanbul and was...

I happened to wander into St James's Park yesterday afternoon. The sun was almost shining and hundreds of people were sprawled out on th...

It's funny how when you live in a place you can begin to take for granted all of the amazing sights around you. I remember when I first ...

As you may have guessed from this blog, I love photography, particularly of places, people and scenery in new countries. I've always lo...

I was fiddling around with this blog earlier in the week, and inadvertently upgraded the template on which it's based. That was all well...

Hoorah! It's less than three weeks before I head off to Turkey, one of the places that I am desperate to see before I head back to Oz. I...

I recently had one of the yummiest meals I've ever had, at London's Nobu (am a bit behind on posting here, but this momentous event...

With my relocation to Australia looming, I took the opportunity to have one last quick weekend in Europe. I chose to go to Bratislava, Slova...

Nothing better than leaving the cold murky Northern Hemisphere winter for a long weekend in Singapore. I was lucky to do this over Easter, a...

It was completely bizarre waking up in a completely different country and not being around my family for Christmas, but Christmas Day in Rab...

It took a couple of hours to drive out of Casablanca across to Rabat. It was time for our first Moroccan lunch, and we were herded into a li...

With a solid three hours sleep under my belt, the tour group congregated for breakfast and did quick introductions. Mohamed, our tour leader...

The first day of my holiday started with a pea-soup fog blanketing much of London. There was bound to be traffic carnage out on the roads, a...