(4 hours, 400m elevation gain) Today, the first steps I took across that rickety bridge with prayer flags flying in the wind, were the realisation of a long-term dream. As I sit here in our first tea house with my luscious Masala tea, looking up as the mist rolls down the steep green hills over […]
I have dreamed about trekking in Nepal since about the time I started reading Kerouac, Borroughs and Ginsberg. Nobody reads the Beats until they hit their first existential crisis somewhere around their mid-twenties, which means I’ve been dreaming of trekking the Annapurnas for at least 15 years. A lot has passed in that 15 years. […]
We arrived in Kathmandu during a power outage, a regular occurrence since the earthquake in 2015 that killed over 8500 people. The country is still rebuilding and recovering, and that includes the power grid, which cuts out occasionally to help manage the load – particularly at night. While the airport was on generator power, the […]
Let’s travel the world. With our kid. How awesome will that be?? He’s well travelled and travels well. It’s a low risk proposition. Turns out our kid is a right arsehole. Or possibly a better way of putting it is that he’s not adapting well to the change and is taking it out on mom […]
Istanbul has more than 2000 mosques, and its skyline, with all of its domes and minarets, resembles a humped hill punctured by upright spears up and down its seven hills. Some, like the little one directly across from our hotel window was a little local mosque. Modest and made of rough brick and mortar. The […]
After our beach holiday in Antalya and Cirali, we set off cross country up to Gallipoli on the North Coast along the Dardanelles, a long strait running between the Asian and European continents. We knew we had a long drive ahead of us, and weren’t entirely sure what to expect of the roads. Much to […]
“Why are the chickens still b-gaa-ing….chickening? It’s already past morning!” From Antalya, we moved up the coast to a little village between the mountains and the sea called Cirali. We turned off the main road and basically drove straight down a cliff for 7 km to get to the one and only tiny little village […]
At one time, Antalya was the southern-most outpost of the Roman Empire. At that time it stretched from more or less the border between England and Scotland all the way down and across Europe and into Asia, on this Western coast of modern day Turkey. Hadrian built a wall in the North to keep […]
We spent two nights in gorgeous Antalya in a little hotel in the Old Town, Kaleici. Our first task was to unload a pillowcase full of excess baggage that we immediately deemed unnecessary for our continued travels. From a distance, Antalya is a gleaming white city that sprawls from the blue Mediterranean sea up […]
Four days into our trip, and I’m finally getting a chance to sit down and write. The last three weeks have been an intense amount of work, anticipation and finally, relaxation. It is a lot for a little family to get through, and it wouldn’t have been possible if both Mark and I were still […]
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