The Tsiribihina River - Madagascar. We love a good boat cruise and three days cruising down the middle of Madagascar was always going to be a winner although there was one concern. Only twenty bottles of beer had been loaded. We informed our guide this would barely last our group of nine for one day …
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 to Paro. All too soon it was time to leave Bagerhat and head back to Dhaka. This time our mode of transport would be by train and would take no less than ten hours which would be a similar time to taking the boat and nearly twice as long as driving along an unfinished …
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 …
Quebec - Canada.I still vividly remember the first time I took off down a runway. I was fifteen and had somehow managed to convince my cash strapped parents to send me on a school ski trip in Quebec, Canada. As the plane turned onto the runway the pilot immediately opened up the engines and we …
