A couple of years ago I took the solo trip of a lifetime, and travel blogged my way around the world. Here’s my – admittedly rather shaky – attempt to sum up my experience in video form. Nine countries and seven months in four minutes.
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The world’s best sundowners: Incredible places to catch an epic sunset
Nothing makes you celebrate the majesty of the planet we live on quite like an immense sunset painted across the heavens. When travelling the world, you experience the most incredible sunsets you’ll ever see. From the flat plains of South America to the tropics of Southeast Asia, I’ve rounded up…
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The Peruvian highlands: Guinea pigs are NOT pets!
As I struggled up the steep island hill, hindered by low oxygen, trying desperately to avoid any livestock that could be lurking in the night, I wondered exactly how my life had ended up here, and, more importantly, why I had paid for the pleasure. Oh, and did I mention…
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The Inca Trail: “It’s good to have goals” (Kill the cow)
Ancient Inca proverb: “Just as you think you have climbed all the stairs, there will be more stairs” – NB that’s not a real Inca proverb – but it should be A couple of days before I was due to begin the treacherous Inca Trail up to Machu Picchu, I…
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There is no Diet Coke in Peru; or “Is Coke Zero okay?”
I flew into Lima last Sunday night with the bare feet of a sleeping gentleman – a Peruvian James May lookalike as it happens – resting gently in my lap. In a stroke of pure Englishness, my response to this unwelcome intimacy was to roll my eyes, tut silently in…
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