When you are a little nervous about something, it always makes you feel better when the sun is shining 🙂 I arrived early at the Borea Adventures dock to catch my boat transfer from Ísafjörður to Veiðileysufjörður and was beginning to think I may have been the only passenger. However, with 5 minutes to go, […]
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I wasn’t going to write a summary post for my second year of full-time travel, but re-reading my summary from last year I realise that a lot has happened, and my life has taken some unexpected turns! So I changed my mind 🙂 Here is where I ended up going over the past year (you
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Travel Photography & Writing In 2016, I quit my job and started travelling full-time, eventually becoming a freelance writer/photographer for outdoor adventure companies like: as well as several smaller providers in Greenland, Iceland, Nepal and Argentina. My photographs have appeared on numerous websites, in the Wanderlust Europe coffee-table book, and in a collaborative photography exhibition
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The image of a large, grey, two-story abandoned building with hints of red around its window panes had haunted me ever since I first moved to Nuuk. I desperately wanted to visit this building and see what else the site contained (other images were few and far between) and finally had my chance on a
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On the day I desperately hoped would be clear, I was greeted once more with grey skies, low clouds and drizzle. This was definitely not what I wanted as we approached Maniitsoq and what is supposed to be an incredible hiking area just beyond it. Even our welcoming committee was not quite enough to lift
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When I went to bed, we were sailing just north of Qeqertarsuatsiaat. When I woke up – We were arriving in Nuuk. On the northbound journey, the Sarfaq Ittuk spends 14 hours in the capital city of Greenland. This is the longest stop it has anywhere during its week-long circuit – I imagine so that
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When planning my solo multi-day hike in Hornstrandir, I found there was lots of conflicting information on the web and I was quite nervous about what to expect. Here are a few logistics and some thoughts based on the trails I took. Transportation The easiest way to book your transfers to and from Hornstrandir
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Although I have now done several long-distance treks 2015 Torres del Paine Circuit Trek, Chile (Swoop Patagonia) 2016 Huayhuash Circuit Trek, Peru (Peru Qorianka) 2017 Unplugged Wilderness Trek, East Greenland (Icelandic Mountain Guides) 2018 Southern Patagonian Icefield Expedition, Argentina (Serac Expeditions and Swoop Patagonia) all of them have been guided. My first solo trek I had never really considered
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G’day! I’m Lisa. A professional photographer and writer who prefers to travel in remote and unusual places. Although I’ve been travelling, writing, and photographing both landscapes and people for many years, it was only in 2018 that I combined all of these interests and started to offer my services professionally. I now work with tourism
It is always a good idea to get up for sunrise … even when it occurs at 3am! It is also a good idea to go back to bed afterwards, and when we finally crawled out for our 8am breakfast, we were greeted with bright blue skies and loads of sunshine. We helped ourselves to
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