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Blog Update

So I finally updated my blog. ...

April 21, 2025

El Regreso

At the end of last 2024, I was invited to a wedding in Brazil. Similar to my trips to Nepal, India and Vietnam, I took this as an opportunity to take some time off and go backpacking around South America. ...

April 10, 2025

Vietnam and a wedding

Once again, I was invited to a wedding on the far side of the world and took it as an opportunity to go backpacking (and pick up a suit) along the way. ...

August 17, 2023

Goa at last

In January 2020, I moved to India for work. I was supposed to be there for a year, but the pandemic cut that plan short. In December 2023, I finally had a chance to go back. ...

January 20, 2023

New Year's on the Nile

A little while ago, I made a brief trip to Egypt after visiting my parents for Christmas. As per normal, here’s a travel blog derived from my travel diary. ...

February 20, 2019

Kilimanjaro

A few weeks ago, I took a trip to Tanzania and climbed Kilimanjaro. As per normal, I kept a travel diary. If you don’t like words, you can just visit Flickr album. ...

February 25, 2018

Everest Base Camp

Back in March, I was invited to a wedding in Sydney, Australia, so I took to the opportunity to stop off in Nepal and hike to Everest Base Camp. Once again, I kept a travel diary and am posting it here for posterity. ...

May 21, 2017

Round the World 3: El Gringo va al Norte

Part 2 covered my travels around the southern half of South America, now we cover my journey north before dropping back south and finally looping round to Rio de Janeiro. ...

April 6, 2016

Round the World 2: El Gringo va al Sur

Part 1 covered my trip through South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. This part covers the first half of my travels in South America, starting in Santiago then heading as South as South goes before turning back Northwards. ...

April 1, 2016

Round the World 1: Bangkok to Auckland

Long time readers of this blog (hi mum) will know that I tend to post travel blogs after big(ish) trips. Well, between October 2015 and March 2016 I took a sabbatical from work and travelled around the world. Obviously, this calls for quite the blog. ...

March 19, 2016