Category Archives: Epic Journeys

Travelling Across Generations: Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls (a.k.a. “The Smoke That Thunders” is truly a wonderful site. The falls border Zimbabwe and Zambia was seen by my grandmother in 1925 and myself in 1998. I…

Canada

My 6-months pregnant self and A. travelled around Canada during a summer holiday.  We thought we’d do a last “couple only” travel before the baby came.  We chose Canada as…

Hungary

I’ve only seen Budapest, but find it to be a fascinating city packed with history. When: in July 1995 as part of inter-railing and in July 2005 part of my…

Epic Journey: Hong Kong to London by train

In 2005 A. and decided to head over to England for the summer. However, we wanted a bit of an adventure so decided to do the journey overland by train….

Africa Overland July & August 1998

  Wanting to travel in Africa, but having no-one to travel with I decided the easiest and safest way was to join an overland truck tour.  I went with a…

Inter-railing in Europe July 1995

During the summer of my first year of uni a friend of mine and I got a one month Euro-rail pass and hit western Europe.  Taking a ferry to Belgium…

Gap Year: South-East Asia & Australia

My first longer length travel in May-July 1994.  A school friend and I spent 3 months travelling over South-east Asia and Australia.  Starting in Thailand we went overland to Malaysia…