Another auspicious entry to a country! I was met at the border by my 20 year old guide and promptly asked him to get the driver to stop 200 metres down the road so I could pee behind a tree. He was a bit bewildered as to why I hadn’t even approached the public […]
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So, as most of you know, I am attempting to hike the GR5 from Lake Geneva to Menton next week. It is about 620km with 2000+m of climbing every day . At the best of times I go lightweight, but when hiking these kind of distances every gram counts. A few of you have
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I sometimes wonder about how robust my planning skills are…. This morning I was on an early train to Chipping Campden where I had intended to run the Cotswold Way (160km) over four days. When I booked this I didn’t know I would still be recovering from the shin splints I got when running the
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Guyana – Not to be confused with French Guiana (its neighbour) is the least visited country in Latin America! Neighbouring Suriname to the East and Venezuela to the West, it is most famous (at least to me) for the Jim Jones commune in Jonestown where 990 Americans died from cyanide poisoning. It is also unusual
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I have lived outside of New Zealand most of my adult life. At no point did I decide to live ‘overseas’ it just sort of happened. First, to try a couple of years working in Australia. Then I thought it would be sensible to do my MBA in the US. And then I met a
No Place Like Home – Glenorchy, Aotearoa Read More »
the why??? Someone emailed me after I posted no.3 of the ‘what to pack’ series to ask why I was so bothered about taking a small light bag. I was a bit bewildered, as after years of travelling, the answer to that question was so obvious I hadn’t even asked myself that in years.
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Georgia is stunning! The Caucasus mountains, the black sea and some amazing orthodox architecture. The people are friendly and relatively modern. The food is amazing. I can’t believe more people don’t come to Georgia. I loved it and can’t wait to go back. My recommendations for Georgia Head to the Kazbeg and climb up to
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Toiletries! This is where the lightweight packing goes so wrong for most of the people that I see struggling through the airport with enormous cases. For those amongst you who love the make up – you have probably figured out that I am not on the high maintenance end of feminine grooming. I get my
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For those of you who read and wept at my catastrophic tale of coughing up my lung in my first half ironman attempt….., I am delighted to announce (am so ridiculously and disproportionately proud that it is just stupid) that I got back in my wetsuit and in the water this morning and did an
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I never understood why people wanted to go on Safari. Surely it was just like going to the zoo, but perhaps a bigger zoo with fences that were more spread out. What was the point of spending huge wads of cash to go to a zoo? But after the first safari drive that we
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