Nov 2022 - Yamba (Australia)
After a few years of essentially solid Monday to Friday 9-5 work, an escape was necessary. The chosen spot was Yamba, a town I came...
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- Sep 3, 2022
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Long time no post, short road trip
In an attempt to reinvigorate my blogspace (are blogs still a thing? oh well who cares), posting some random photos taken during a short...
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- Aug 26, 2020
- 5 min
July 2020 - Summer escape to Syracuse, Sicily
Fact: it's impossible to stop Europeans enjoying their summer holidays. By July, many countries within the EU had re-opened to European...
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- Aug 25, 2020
- 2 min
June 2020 - things start to ease
Enter June and the weather continues to get pleasant, the birds really are making themselves heard and my bike rides continue without...
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- Aug 25, 2020
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May 2020 - Spring in full swing
It was now May and the thought of being 'stuck' in Maastricht was definitely not an unpleasant one. It was spring, the countryside was...
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- Aug 25, 2020
- 3 min
Civilisation implodes at the hands of the tiniest of life's wonders
Media driven decision-making So, arriving from Norway in Amsterdam in late March on one of the final flights I took an empty train to...
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- Jul 26, 2020
- 4 min
March 2020 - Hei Norge (Norway)
There are many reasons I've always wanted to visit Norway. Of course there is the natural beauty but one of my all time heroes is a...
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- Jun 3, 2020
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March 2020 - Hej Sverige (Sweden)
I've never travelled overnight on a boat/ship before and was curious how I'd like it. The 'ferry' left Tallinn at 6pm and arrived in...
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- May 10, 2020
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March 2020 - To Tallinn (EST), oh and Helsinki (FIN)
The bus trip from Riga to Tallinn in Estonia was again super comfortable but I was surprised the entire route was just a single carriage...
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- Apr 24, 2020
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Feb 2020 - Riga (Latvia)
The bus from Vilnius to Riga was around 4hrs through a fairly unremarkable landscape dominated by flat, open pasture land and pine...
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- Apr 15, 2020
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Feb 2020 - Sveiki Lithuania
By this stage my ability to absorb new languages was failing and I'd often end up responding with some jumbled...
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- Apr 6, 2020
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Feb 2020 - Ukraine (Lviv)
After rocking back and forth, up and down, for around 6 hours (500km) my train from Kyiv arrived at Lviv station around 8pm. The Russian...
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- Mar 2, 2020
- 5 min
Feb 2020 - Ukraine (Kyiv)
Infamous in the mainstream (scripted, yawn) and alternative (real) media, Ukraine is now a country that many people are at least loosely...
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- Feb 7, 2020
- 5 min
Feb 2020 - Bŭlgariya - България
Unbeknownst to me, I've been consuming a part of Bulgaria all my life, specifically the pro-biotic bacteria Bascillus Bulgaricus found in...
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- Jan 25, 2020
- 5 min
Jan 2020 - Ελλάδα - "Greece" of course
One-way ticket to Greece with nothing at all booked beyond the first week, so not really sure how this trip will pan out. Never been to...
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- Jan 19, 2020
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Dec 2019 - A frosty re-visit to the German Vulkaneifel region
After returning to Maastricht, while a long story we briefly ended up back in the German hamlet of Bad Bertrich. This place has been...
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- Jan 19, 2020
- 2 min
Nov 2019 - Fancy Nancy
The very last stop on the road trip, all good things come to an end. Pesmes to Nancy was around 220km via the back-roads, which again I...
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- Jan 19, 2020
- 2 min
Nov 2019 - Pesmes: tiny but packs punch
I have no idea how we decided to go to this tiny hamlet in central France near Dijon but no doubt it being labelled as one of France's...
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- Jan 19, 2020
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Nov 2019 - Annecy: The Pearl of the Alps
350km from Avignon, Annecy is a fairly small city on a 35km long lake about 35km south of Geneva. It's called the Pearl of the Alps so...
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- Jan 19, 2020
- 2 min
Nov 2019 - Avignon: Once seat of the Pope
It was time to slowly start heading north back to The Netherlands. Winter was setting in and I had some mild concerns about not having...
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