I have been ‘home’ for a little over three months, now, and I hadn’t, until tonight, been able to bring myself to write here. The change in lifestyle was, still is, a shock to my system.
I spent a little over six months in Edinburgh, and after five months of continuous travel, it was comforting to [...]
Slow down. Sleep more. Cook a bit. Laugh a lot.
I’ve been here a week. I’ve seen some live comedy. I’ve done a night tour of Scotland’s most haunted graveyard (no ghostly attacks, but I’ll probably go again).
A few nights ago my housemates threw a surprise birthday party for me. They’ve been threatening it for [...]
Exactly five months after I hefted my pack upon my shoulders and walked out of the house in Townsville, I walked through the door of my new home in Edinburgh and set it down. My housemates picked me up from the bus station and we had a pint in a Scottish pub in the way [...]
Or, Not Spanish, Basque or How a bunch of girls drank me under the table.
I think I’ve discovered the friendliest people in Europe, if not the world. I’ve spent three nights in Azkoitia, the heartland of Euskadi, the Basque country. I came to visit Dafne, a friend I made in Chiang Mai, and her family [...]
After a rather tiring weekend of cycling, bopping to German punk and the occasional/continual pint, it was a pleasure to drive the hour or so northeast from fun, noisy Dresden to Anja’s quiet village of Kreinitz, near Riesa. Germany is a beautiful country, and the plains of Saxony are no exception. The drive took us [...]
I thought we were all Yugoslavian. One day, I woke up and my friends were in the hills, shooting at me. I realized they were Serbs.
–Bata
I’ve spent almost two weeks in former Yugoslav territory (from Slovenia to here), and twice as long in Bosnia and Herzegovina as I initially intended. I’ve been learning a lot [...]
I’ve slowed down on the blogging recently because I haven’t been travelling much. Also, haven’t had much inspiration for photography, but here are some pictures of the Black Sea, a gold-domed cathedral and some salad:
I spent three nights in Varna with my new companions (and some old ones): Paul (Ireland), Kate, Tash, [...]
This is my last night in Veliko Tarnovo, where I’ve been since Friday. Everybody from Hiker’s in Plovdiv is here, so I’ve spent much of the last few days with Steph and Sarah (Shropshire, U.K.) and Hayley and Bridget (Tasmania).
Veliko Tarnovo is an ancient town built on the slopes of a steep gorge. The centrepiece [...]
Just another day wandering Plovdiv, cooking, and jazz. The girls and I cooked up quite the spread for tea, then later went out for icecream and in doing so stumbled upon a big band playing in a Roman amphitheatre (can you imagine actually stumbling upon a big band?).
We made the most of our last day in Athens. A wander through the markets yielded enough fresh food to feed a small army, and after an hour or so of slicing and packing, we headed to Lyceabattus Hill with a sunset picnic in mind. Laura (Canada), Isobel (Sydney), Samantha (Melbourne), Martin and Charlotte (Perth), [...]