Category Archives: Travel This is a long way from the Southern Spanish beaches of the Costa del Sol that are favoured by crowds of Northern European visitors who want to sit in the sun! Here, at the opposite end of the country – in Asturias, Northern Spain – stunning craggy mountains rise up in all directions. The wilds are […]  There is something magical about being on the water! I especially love the different perspective it give to an unfamiliar landscape when I’m travelling. The Nile River is the very heart of Egypt’s civilisation and history: when in Egypt, a boat trip on the Nile is a must. Tourist riverboats cruise between Luxor and Aswan, […]  Any regular visitor to these pages will know I love local markets. I love the colour, the chaos, and the insight they give into people’s daily lives (see: Weekly Wanders Markets). So, I was very pleased to have the opportunity to visit the fresh food market in Mount Hagen. We weren’t still supposed to be […]  Sunrise is the beginning of something … The pilgrims on the Varanasi ghats along the Ganges are absolutely absorbed in their preparations of offerings to the Mother Ganga, in their ritual ablutions in the sacred waters, or in their pre-dawn meditations. Time loses all meaning. Pilgrims have been travelling here to bathe in the Ganges River […]  They say that if you have too many lemons: make lemonade. So, it follows that if you have too much sugar by-product, you should make rum. That’s what happened in Bundaberg, a small city in coastal Queensland. Originally reliant on timber and maize, from the 1870s, sugar cane became the mainstay. With its humid subtropical climate […] |
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