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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Hiking on Soup

The first day of the Inca Trail, and we were all raring to go, kitted up with bamboo walking sticks, bottles of water, waterproofs and cameras charged and at the ready. We’d also bought the corner shop out of every single Snickers bar it had, and most of the biscuits. Snickers bars are surely bought …

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