Eight years ago today I sent the last in a series of diary emails home, missives which I've since been reposting on this blog. I hadn't intended for this to be the final one, but it took on a life of its own after it had been sent, so perhaps it w...

Part two of my New Zealand tales, back on schedule as this was originally sent eight years ago today. Some poetic meanderings about the brilliant wonderfulness of the flora, geology and water cycle are followed by a quick summary of Christmas when...

I've been using this blog to post some travelogue emails I wrote to friends and families when I was a young, carefree global vagrant. Blogs had barely entered my vocabulary at this point, so I recklessly invaded the inboxes of my nearest and deare...

I remember writing this post as it gook about two weeks to compile and twenty minutes to type up: a compilation of some standout memories from a year in Australia. I returned to the UK with little focus on what was to come next, although it didn't...

Eight years ago today, when I was still a carefree backpacker, I posted this despatch from Western Australia. I had just stepped off the tall ship Windeward Bound after a three week voyage around the south west corner of Australia: Fremantle to Al...

Happy new year for 2011.Recent events in Australia have taken me back to my trips out there, prompting another travelogue re-posting. This one covers some great days helping Bruce build his house on Kangaroo Island - here it is on Google Maps. I t...

This post came at the end of a very rewarding trip through the hot centre of the country. I would recommend a trip to anyone - it's a fair way to go but a truly wondrous landscape. ...there's also some stuff about cricket.

Enjoying the lengthening days of south eastern Australia in the southern spring was a glorious, laid back rural experience. I spent time on two farms: each of them suffering in the drought, one of them seemingly with greater success though as the ...