Tokyo - Japan. What has Japan done to be able to cast off such a wicked past and earn the respect of every person to have ever travelled to it's beautiful shores? My home (at least when I'm there), the United Kingdom appears to be forever carrying the burden and guilt of empire but Japan …
Jinja - Uganda After a good day and a half on the road, we finally it made it to Jinja. If you thought the Nile was a big ass, lazy river then think again! We were here for one reason only. To raft one of the greatest sections of commercially available white water on this …
Valencia - Spain I can't say that Valencia has been high on my list of places to visit but as I begin a new era of sharing, being told what to do and saying 'yes dear', all with a smile, I found myself hurtling down a runway heading to the east coast of Spain in …
Antananarivo - Madagascar There are three things I aspire to in life. The first is to fall in love with a hottie and live happily ever after, the second is to succeed in my career and the third is to be well travelled. I feel I am well on the way to achieving two of …
Newcastle to Bowness-on-Solway. England. In the north of England there is a great wall made of solid stone 5 meters high, 3 meters wide and 75 miles long with watch towers every mile stretching across the rugged English landscape. It's purpose? To prevent the Wild-men from coming south and ruining everything. Only it's not the …
Thimphu - Bhutan. Bhutan is certainly the kind of country that will keep your average mountain goat entertained. There is an abundance of trekking to be had although you cannot scale their highest mountain as it is strictly forbidden (as is any peak over 6,000m in the country), thus making it one of the highest …
Dhaka - Bangladesh. As with India, tell people you're off to Bangladesh and everyone becomes an expert on travel health with the overriding assumption that anyone who visits these countries will see their guts explode before the ink is dry on their passport stamp. The following weekend they order a curry from the local Indian …
