In my efforts to do a little hiking while I’m staying put here in Quito, I headed out to Cascada Condor Machay this weekend with Laura and Mark. I’d met them at my Saturday night language exchange group a few weeks ago and, given the run of cloudy weather we’ve had recently, we decided to […]
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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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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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I am a photographer. One who rarely remembers to take video (even though some of my blog posts include short clips). And even though I spent almost 10 years working on the periphery of the film industry in Australia (in particular, I was one of the main time-lapse photographers for the IMAX Movie: Hidden
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Day 12 of the Unplugged Wilderness Trek was very relaxed. Well, at least it was for me given I’d already spent a few days in Kulusuk before the trek. A long breakfast followed by hanging out chatting, followed by a guided tour of the Kulusuk Museum. This is a really cool museum that shows a variety of
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Day 11 of the Unplugged Wilderness Trek started early and we were happily greeted with brilliant blue skies again. The early start was because we had asked Maxime the evening before if we could add in the climb to the summit behind the Tasiilaq Mountain Hut (which we were meant to hike yesterday) before heading
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Day 10 of the Unplugged Wilderness Trek was to see us scaling the almost vertical, boulder-strewn mountain behind the Tasiilaq Mountain Hut. However, we awoke to rain on the roof and Maxime decided it would be too dangerous to attempt with the weather as it was. Plus we wouldn’t actually see anything. He didn’t have
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Today I had to confront the logistical challenge that I’d been putting off addressing ever since I signed up for the Unplugged Wilderness Trek. We were going to spend the next 2 nights at the Tasiilaq Mountain Hut and would need to take whatever personal items we needed for 2 nights, plus our sleeping bags
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