You’ll come back a different person

A lot of people said that before I went away… ‘you’ll come back a different person’. I’m not sure if this is based on experience, it feels like something you’re supposed to say, or because a lot of people who go away on gap years are younger than twenty and do a bit of growing …

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India – the slide show

I know other people’s holiday snaps aren’t always so appealing… oohh really another sunset, gosh that’s lovely and so on, but I’ve put together a slide show of my photos from India. This one is animated and includes music, so hopefully it’s a bit more fun than the usual. I loved India – can you …

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Bolivia, then back

It seems like a very long time ago now, but just a few weeks ago I finished the trip in Bolivia. After leaving Puno and hopping over a hectic border crossing, we stopped briefly at Tihuanacu, an archaeological site and home to the Subterranean Temple and the Kalasasaya, pre-Inca ruins of comparable importance in Bolivia …

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Buy the pictures, donate to charity

I’ve taken thousands of pictures over the last year, all the good ones and quite a few crap ones making it onto Flickr. The Faves set has the cream of the crop. Now, I’ve just set up a new online gallery of my best pictures from last year’s trip. You can buy prints, have them …

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Travelling bloggers take over

Friends are away travelling at the moment, and they’re blogging like crazy. This is great because I’m getting to travel further, vicariously, through them (and I swear they’re all seeing more and having a better time than I did), and it’s also great because I’m spared getting those ‘biblical epic’ e-mails detailing what someone had …

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