A cradle mountain winter hike was set to be the highlight of our five day Tasmanian road trip. Tasmania is the island 240 km south of the Australian mainland and is home to amazing…
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Our Iceland glacier hike mission was off to an awesome start. We had been fortunate enough to see the northern lights through the plane window on the way over. Only thing was, it was…
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After our epic Trans-Siberian adventure we flew from Moscow to spend 2 days in Baku, Azerbaijan. I had always wanted to visit, I don’t know why, it just sounded like an unusual place to…
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It was finally happening. My dream of doing the Trans-Siberian Railway had come true. It wasn’t just going to be me though. Three close friends that I had known from my school days were…
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After our road trip around Iceland, the plan was to sail aboard a Faroese passenger and cargo ship to the Faroe Islands. After returning our hire car back to the dealer, we were to…
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I had been wanting to go to Iceland ever since I was a teenager and had found out there was actually a place called Iceland. I started travelling in 2008, and even though I…
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We passed gigantic cliffs that suddenly dropped into the ocean as strong winds smashed into our faces which made us squint. We were sailing aboard MS Norröna, the largest passenger ferry in the Faroe…
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Red wine and coffee helped make us tired then wake us up again as we enjoyed the view from the train window. We had left Stockholm behind and were bound for Copenhagen. Endless green soaked meadows passed…
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The Northern New South Wales beachside town of Byron Bay has long been a favourite weekend destination for residents of Brisbane and backpackers road-tripping up and down Australia’s East Coast. Known for its laid…
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We decided to get out of Moscow for a few days and looked online for a good dacha (country house) to rent. We found a decently priced modern dacha with its own banya (sauna)…
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After a few days in Belgium we jumped aboard a Ryanair jet bound for Budapest, the Hungarian capital and the 6th most visited city in Europe. I knew little about Budapest and it was…
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We’d just hopped off the early morning Amsterdam-Brussels train and made our way into the station complex to book a ticket to Bruges. Back home I had googled ‘Bruges in winter’, and the amazing…
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A Scottish gentleman I had met at the Rizhskaya Railway Museum in Moscow had told me about a hidden train graveyard inside the grounds of an operational train depot on the outskirts of Budapest.…
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We had just landed at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport. It was December 2014 and the Russian economy was collapsing. The flight over had been comfortable as the plane was only a quarter full. For various…
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Jake and I were sitting around playing with a baby eagle that someone had rescued. It was becoming more tame each day and would sit upon its perch all day and then go into…
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A small minibus picked us up around midday at our hotel in Antigua. It was one of the only times during the whole trip that we were actually on a bus with other tourists…
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After a blurry night in Cancun Tiny and I jumped aboard a small plane bound for Havana. It was easily one of the smallest passenger planes I had ever flown on. Although we were…
