Down in the Mekong Delta
Of all the places I planned on visiting in Vietnam, I was especially intrigued by the Mekong delta area. To my mind, the Mekong delta conjured up images of floating markets and undulating boats against a backdrop of exotic foliage…completely clichéd, I know, but sustained by years of the occasional photo, and the occasional article on a travel website. Visiting the Mekong delta was THE part of my trip which I was looking forward to the most, and which I was most ignorant about. After all, the Mekong delta is a huge expanse of land compromising the bottom bit of Vietnam, ...
Discovering Hue, feeling excited again
So, where was I? Oh yes, I was telling you about Hanoi, and my month there, and the strange effect it had on me. That it filled my heart with unexpected pleasures while at the same time leaving a feeling of emptiness inside when I moved on. But what happens after that? What happens when I finally set out to explore Vietnam from North to South as I have always dreamed of? I sulk. I sulk pretty badly for a couple of days as I miss the laid-back, sedentary life I had in the Vietnamese capital, which is slightly silly because ...
Live Update from Australia: When everything starts falling into place
A bit over two weeks ago, after landing in Melbourne, I wrote a very therapeutic post about how spending time almost constantly on the road had made me feel, how it had effected my health, my relationship with Boyfriend, and my reaction when I finally arrived in Australia, which had been something I had wanted for a couple of years and which I went to considerable lengths to achieve. The mood of this post was pretty sombre, and a number of you took the time to comment and tell me that things would get better, and that it had been ...
Slow Travel Peru – Falling in love with Cusco
Editor's note: This is a slow travel guest post by Sarah Shaw. Sarah is a travel writer and mixed media artist, currently working as an English teacher at a public school in Seoul, South Korea. She authors www.mappingwords.com, a travel blog that tells stories about people and places encountered abroad, in the form of narratives, photo essays, destination articles and general musings. She enjoys dancing, singing karaoke, playing with cats in cafes, and embarrassing herself in foreign languages. When I was five years old, I saw a woman on television working as a mapmaker and charting territories from a helicopter. Awestruck, ...
Picture Perfect: Ode to the animals met along the way
This post is part of an ongoing series entitled ‘Picture Perfect’, published because of my wish to showcase some beautiful travel shots from around the world which didn’t quite make it into regular blog posts or which tell a story on their own and need few words, if any, to describe them. I, like many of you out there, am an animal lover, and will spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to take beautiful photos of the creatures I meet during my travels. Today, I decided to share with you some of my favourite animal-related memories, though since I don't ...
Of all the places I planned on visiting in Vietnam, I was especially intrigued by the Mekong delta area. To my mind, the Mekong delta conjured up images of floating markets and undulating boats against a backdrop of exotic foliage…completely clichéd, I know, but sustained by years of the occasional photo, and the occasional article [...]
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This post is part of an ongoing series entitled ‘Picture Perfect’, published because of my wish to showcase some beautiful travel shots from around the world which didn’t quite make it into regular blog posts or which tell a story on their own and need few words, if any, to describe them. I, like many [...]
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Editor’s note: This is a slow travel guest post by Sarah Shaw. Sarah is a travel writer and mixed media artist, currently working as an English teacher at a public school in Seoul, South Korea. She authors www.mappingwords.com, a travel blog that tells stories about people and places encountered abroad, in the form of narratives, [...]
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This post is part of an ongoing series entitled ‘Picture Perfect’, published because of my wish to showcase some beautiful travel shots from around the world which didn’t quite make it into regular blog posts or which tell a story on their own and need few words, if any, to describe them. Berlin is full [...]
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A bit over two weeks ago, after landing in Melbourne, I wrote a very therapeutic post about how spending time almost constantly on the road had made me feel, how it had effected my health, my relationship with Boyfriend, and my reaction when I finally arrived in Australia, which had been something I had wanted [...]
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I have always been uncomfortable with the term ‘off the beaten track’. What does it mean anyway? Is off the beaten track some isolated village in the Amazon which you can only reach after one week of tracking? Is off the beaten track the little village in my tiny home country which is only 10 [...]
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