asia India #3 – Exploring Hampi and Goa 9 May 2019 We were now in Southern India and more on the well-travelled trail of backpackers. Attitudes were less traditional, more progressive and the locals were acclimatised to seeing white people -…
asia India #2: Holi festival and Mumbai 29 Apr 201929 Apr 2019 Hannah and I had booked this particular train to Jodphur specifically not to arrive at nighttime. India dictated that it would be better if we did, but we were put…
asia India #1 – Finding our feet in the North 15 Apr 201915 Apr 2019 Getting from New Delhi airport to our guesthouse summed up India immediately. Disorder, chaos, constant bartering and not knowing who to trust; but the objective is always met, somehow. By…
asia HK: On the road again 6 Apr 20196 Apr 2019 The start of my next adventure was to be an ‘extended layover’ in the sprawling metropolis of Hong Kong. Here, we would spend a week before getting our next flight…
Europe Italians Don’t Indicate 3: The road back home 30 Oct 2018 This post is the third and final of a three-part blog documenting mine and Hannah’s roadtrip around Italy in my newly converted British Gas/guerrilla camper van. Read the blog from…
Europe Italians Don’t Indicate 2: From Venice to Vesuvius 3 Sep 20183 Sep 2018 This post is the second of a three-part blog documenting mine and Hannah’s roadtrip around Italy in my newly converted British Gas/guerrilla camper van. Read the blog from our first…
Europe Italians Don’t Indicate 1: South & Lakebound 5 Aug 2018 This post is the first of a three-part blog documenting mine and Hannah’s roadtrip around Italy in my newly converted British Gas/guerrilla camper van. To receive email updates of our…
Europe Russian around the Crem de la Kremlin 26 Feb 201826 Feb 2018 With us both being so busy at work, the first month of 2018 was the most January-esque January I've ever experienced. I was so pleased that Hannah and I had…
Europe A week in the Bay of Kotor, MNE 4 Sep 20173 Sep 2017 It doesn't take a professor of linguistics to work out that Montenegro means 'black mountains'; and took us even less time to work out why. On our first night (and…
Europe Retrospective: England vs Russia 10 Jun 201719 Jun 2017 I've just bought all the tickets I can for the Euro's mate, I've got all the England group games and a couple of the knockouts. Want one? was probably the best…