This is the third edited extract from my Mongolia Journal, covering days 3 and 4 of my two-week horse trek. With photos! 27 June 2015 Lunch stop - Day 3 We’re at lunch in a long flat valley with a train line and a town in the distance. The night was wild and cold, and … Continue reading Mongolia Journal ~ 3 Getting into the swing of things (with eagles!)
I've finally got my act together and have started blogging edited extracts (and PHOTOS) from my Mongolia travel journal. If you missed the first post, it's here -- First Impressions. This post covers the commencement of our two-week horse-riding expedition. Owing to the nature of journals, events are not necessarily presented in sequential order, so … Continue reading Mongolia Journal ~ 2 Into the steppes
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
Meanwhile, at the tail end of my 1993-1994 adventures, we're in Italy. Having just experienced the Carnival of Venice, we're now en route to Firenze. Welcome to Travelling in the 90s... [Saturday 12 February, 1994] It took over three hours on the train to reach Florence, through lovely rolling hills with villages nestled in the … Continue reading Travelling in the 90s: Florence is freezing
We're into the final two weeks of our 1993-1994 (Travelling in the 90s) adventure (back when I was a true natural blond -- check out the photo). Venice was our first stop in Italy and undoubtedly one of the highlights. I can't tell you how many exclamation marks I had to remove from the following … Continue reading Travelling in the 90s: The Carnival of Venice
Flights have been booked today for my next overseas adventure -- Huzzah! All will be revealed in time; but in the short term I'm going to focus on wrapping up the Travelling in the 90s series. There's not too much more of my 20-something year old ramblings to go. So today it's back to 1994 … Continue reading Travelling in the 90s: Provence (in the steps of Madam, will you Talk?)
It's back to 1994 Paris for the latest installment of Travelling in the 90s. Here we have more of my ramblings from 21 years ago, with bad photos and far too many exclamation marks (most of which I have edited out)... [Monday 7 February, 1994] A few more impressions of Paris: A great many of … Continue reading Travelling in the 90s: Parisian culture
We're on the homeward stretch in my Travelling in the 90s series, which features extracts from my original travel journal in 1993-1994. This was my first ever trip overseas, taken after I finished my undergraduate university studies. I'm young, green and oh so enthusiastic! So far we've spent a couple of weeks in Greece and … Continue reading Travelling in the 90s: In which we hit Paris
And now for more Travelling in the 90s — tripping back in time to 1994 and my last few days in the UK... [Saturday 29 January, 1994] Yesterday we headed back to London via Oxford. We wandered around for a while -- saw the canal, saw the castle, saw some shops -- before picking up … Continue reading Travelling in the 90s: last days in London
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