One of my favourite memories of meeting locals when I travel is of two gentlemen I met in the Latvian port town of Ventspils. We only chatted for five or ten minutes, but I've always remembered them, and as it was something that happened fairly early on in my travelling years, it's an incident that …
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Travelling in Cold Places – Episode 121 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
Welcome to the first episode of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast for 2019! This episode is one that you'll empathise with in the northern hemisphere (being mid-winter there) but for us down here in Australia, for example, we are just daydreaming about cold weather because we've got all the hot summer …
A travel year in three downpours: Kyoto, Bangkok and Saigon
When it rains, it pours, right? 2018 was the year when it poured both literally and metaphorically for me in terms of travel. And I loved every second of all of it. A rainy day in Kyoto: Visiting Fushimi Inari The only trip I actually had planned for 2018 was to take my son to Japan for a …