It's over a year since my Mongolian adventure, and I haven't got near all the blog posts I was going to write. Thank goodness I kept a daily journal, or I'd have forgotten so much already. I always intended to write themed posts about my experiences, rather than simply transcribing my journal. But... I've left … Continue reading Mongolia journal ~ 1 First impressions
It's been a year since I posted the last extract from my 1993-1994 travel journal for the Travelling in the 90s series. I've been distracted. But there's only a couple of weeks of Italy to go on the entire trip, so I'm going to focus on getting to the end. Our last stop was Florence … Continue reading Travelling in the 90s: Venerable Rome
It's been hard to avoid horse racing in Melbourne this week. The Melbourne Cup carnival seems to get more hyped every year, and all week it's been a frenzy of fashion, ridiculous weather and thoroughbreds. I largely ignored proceedings (although I'm regretting that now, given the inaugural win of the main event by a female … Continue reading A day at the races, Mongolian Nadaam style…
Before I went to Mongolia, my aunt said to take a torch. Well, doh! I'm camping... "No, not for the camping. For the footpaths in Ulaan Bataar. They're really dangerous at night! You could hurt yourself." I thought, yeah, right. But, well... Ulaan Bataar is many things. Well-maintained is not one of them. We spent … Continue reading The treacherous footpaths of Ulaan Bataar
I started to tell you about Mongolia... and then I got distracted by houses getting demolished and an epic night of D&D. But today we return to the steppes and the horses. The earlier post (part 1) covered the logistics of the horse trek and how I managed the riding. Today I want to talk … Continue reading Horse trekking in Mongolia – part 2
This is a blatant leveraging of the weekly photo challenge theme of half and half as an excuse to publish more photos (and tell a story) from my recent trip to Mongolia -- a land of big sky, spectacular clouds and sweeping grasslands. The horizon draws the eye repeatedly and bisects many of my photos, … Continue reading Riding into the storm
I'm now back from my latest international adventure, the focus of which was a two-week horse trek across the steppes of Mongolia. It was an amazing trip: challenging, inspiring, fascinating. And boy did it go quickly. Over the coming weeks I intend to write a series of posts about my Mongolian experiences. (There's so much … Continue reading Horse trekking in Mongolia – part 1
It's a bit hard to fully capture Mongolia in photos, so I took a short (30s) video, in which you can briefly meet the horse I rode for two weeks...
I'm in Mongolia -- how cool is that? Today I leave the city of Ulaan Baatar to join a two-week horse riding expedition through some national parks and across the Steppes. There will be no electricity or WiFi so I'll be offline for the next fortnight... I'll leave you with this little guy in Sukhbaatar … Continue reading Gone on a journey…
(Or, "Sometimes it pays to be a hoarder") In the very near future I’m heading to the Steppes Of Mongolia. To ride a horse. For two whole weeks. Squee! As you might expect, I’ve been planning what to take for a while now. I don’t ride horses all that often, so I don’t have all … Continue reading And at the bottom of my wardrobe I found…
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