"Short stories and travel reports from my life adventures around the globe".
2024: Basecamp Georgia & 5 New Countries! Here we are again. At the risk of repeating myself I find it quite bewildering how fast these years roll around. Remember when you were a kid and the long, (manageably) hot summers went on for seemingly decades? Indeed it is 12 months since I published my last […]
Read MoreSnippets of Yantai. Shandong Province, China. August 2009. Cover photo courtesy of Hao Lin Photos. By mid August in the summer of 2009 my travels in China were approaching the one month mark. In truth it had been a dizzying full-on adventure packed with unforgettable experiences. From my first days exploring Beijing and the culinary […]
Read MoreOnce Upon a Time in Qingdao. Shandong Province, China. August, 2009. When I look back on my first stretch of travel in China there is a place that stands above the rest as my outright favourite. A location that gets me even more nostalgic and damp-eyed than usual. In fact, so taken was I with […]
Read MoreSnippets of Tai’an. Shandong Province, China July 2009. Should one of the world’s most sacred Taoist and Buddhist mountains ever find itself onto your bucket list, look no further than the prefecture level city of Tai’an in China. Home to around 5.6 million people, it is an intriguing mix of traditional markets, towering shopping malls […]
Read MoreSnippets of Zhujiayu. Shandong Province, China. July 2009. I’ve seen a fair bit of China over the years. Across these travels, I can’t think of many spots that can compete with the authenticity of Zhujiayu. Located in Shandong province, some 45km to the east of the city of Jinan, this mountainous village felt like a community […]
Read MoreSnippets of Jinan. Shandong Province, China. July 2009. The concrete jungle of Jinan lies five hours south of Beijing. That’s a comparatively swift three hours if you treat yourself to the high-speed bullet train. As the capital of Shandong Province (slightly larger than Greece), the city is home to nine million people. I arrived by […]
Read MoreOrthodox Disney Vibes at Tuman Monastery in Serbia. July 2021. It was our last day in Golubac and after all the excitement of our adventures in and around the fortress we found ourselves at a loose end with a spare afternoon to kill. Reading through the choice of sights near the village, a clear contender […]
Read MoreA Journey Through Belgrade’s Street Art. August 2019 & October 2020 – August 2021. I don’t know about you but I always find that street art plays a crucial role in determining how I feel about a city. Oftentimes these public expressions spring forth as vessels of freedom, creativity, community, identity, history and national pride. […]
Read MoreOnce Upon a Time in Prague. December 2002 & February 2012. In late 2002 I was living in Bratislava, where I worked as an English teacher. Any free time us teachers had (and there was plenty of it) went to the seemingly endless travel options in and around Slovakia. My first trip to Prague was […]
Read MoreSnippets of Vienna. October 2002 & June 2003. I always feel a bit uncomfortable when people ask me if I’ve ever been to Vienna. This is because while I have visited (twice actually), it isn’t a city I was able to get under the skin of. In fact, I barely brushed the surface. Circumstances very […]
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