Volcano Climbing and Harem Life: Sumatra Part 2: Apologies, Jarrod if the title of this weeks blog has you triumphantly proclaiming “I bloody KNEW IT! Things do get crazy on those small group tours!!” You’re no doubt imagining a cocktails after dinner scenario where three of us realise we’re competing for the attention of the same Dutch backpacker, and one of us takes a long, slow sip of … Continue Reading →
What you’ll discover trekking to ABC (Part 1)
It hasn’t been easy, Jarrod, to work out what form the blog about trekking in Nepal should take. There’s no shortage of ‘Packing Essentials For Your Trek’ blogs out there, the internet certainly doesn’t need any more of those. And believe me, you don’t want to read excerpts from my delirious, exhausted, possibly altitude affected travel diary. Honestly I flick … Continue Reading →
You took HOW many photos of a sunset? Lake Kariba
Pop quiz, Jarrod. How many photos of a sunset is too many? Ha! It’s a trick question of course, there’s no such thing as too many. In fact, staring directly into the sun and taking over 200 photos in the space of an hour, of something that happens every goddamn day is definitely Absolutely Normal Behaviour It takes two horrifically … Continue Reading →
Frozen Cheese and Bush Pees: The trip to Malawi
Okay, Jarrod, so the last blog finished with an all too vivid description of chain-reaction vomiting on a ferry, and the title of this one is Frozen Cheese and Bush Pees. I promise they won’t all be chronicles of bodily functions, it’s just that when I read my journal from this section of the trip, those words leap out at … Continue Reading →