Tranquil.Languid.Refreshing I really love walking. Which is strange because in London I hate it, if I have to move more than three or fours metres it is on two wheels, and anything less than that feels slow and tedious. Yet take me out of the city and away from a bike and my desire […]
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First.Big.Climb This first post from the Dominican Republic is coming from it’s highest point, and the tallest peak in the Caribbean, Pico Duarte. So named after arguably the Dominican’s most famous founding father Juan Pablo Duarte (the mountain was previously named after it’s slightly less popular former leader Rafael Trujillo who selflessly named the mountain
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Terraced.Damp.Chokkha We arrived safely on the mainland after an uneventful ferry journey and were whisked off by a taxi who’s drivers bizarre music taste flicked between hard hitting techno and Nsync. We had hoped to make the journey up into the highlands in one day but arrived at our transit stop of Ipoh a
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Steamy.Un-relenting.Thrilling We convinced the cooks to start early so we could dine on the glorious Sapa breakfast buffet one last time before catching the painfully early bus to the town of Dien Bien Phu, heading in the direction of Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Laos to its mates. Our early morning suffering was shared with Iida,
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