It was always the plan this year that when I arrived in Ecuador, I would stop traveling for a while. “Why?” you may ask, given I have the resources to keep going. There are a couple of reasons related directly to me: I haven’t had any income for over a year and I need to […]
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Back in January, I ate my way through many of the Portuguese treats on offer in Porto whilst visiting my friends for a week. Well, 6 months later I was back. And having just stretched my stomach enormously by trying as much of the typical food in the Azores as possible, there was more to
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This trip to Portugal, I spent 3 days hanging out with José and his family in Vila Real de Santo António, right on the border with Spain in the Algarve region. During these days, we managed to fit in some beach time: Some eating (of course): A trip to the lighthouse (all Portuguese lighthouses are open
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Never in my life had I ever considered getting a tattoo. I didn’t like the look of them, and I couldn’t conceive of why you would want something permanently engraved on your skin. I certainly couldn’t come up with something that I would want permanently etched into me anyway. That is, until I arrived in
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For the second time this year I found myself visiting my friends in Portugal and eating waaaaaaaay too much food! This trip I added a few more Porto dishes some others from the Algarve, but this post focuses on the food of the Azores, where I spent 5 days exploring the largest island – São Miguel. For those
Continuing on from my first 3 days of exploring São Miguel Island… On Day 4 it was time to explore one of the two tea plantations on the island. We were going to visit the Porto Formoso tea factory for a change of scenery for Pedro (he’d visited the other one previously), but it was
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Given that I’d spent several days in Porto on my last trip to Portugal earlier in the year, Pedro decided that we should head further afield and spend some time with a friend of his on São Miguel Island in the Azores. Located between Europe and North America, São Miguel is the largest of the 9 volcanic
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This is my favourite image from my trip to Greenland this year. Taken on Day 3 of the Unplugged Wilderness Trek with Greenland Adventures by Icelandic Mountain Guides, it (almost) perfectly captures everything I loved about the trek and the reasons why the experience was so special to me. Many people have asked me about
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I had dreamed of going to Greenland for more than 20 years and finally I made it there! Was it worth the wait? ABSOLUTELY! Though I really should not have waited and made my first trip years ago 🙁 Oh well, making up for lost time – I have already made plans to
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My long-awaited 5 weeks in Greenland this year were pretty much spent hiking and trekking 🙂 I divided my time between South and East Greenland, which, it turns out, have vastly different scenery! I know there are plenty of others out there who are as keen as me for outdoor adventure, so the following is
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