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For years I have been helping friends with my love of travel, want to go, oh let me help you! I truly enjoy travel, the great, the good, the not so fabulous, it is all adventure. My blog will contain stories, information and other odds and sods. I ride a motorbike so there will be motorbike riding trips thrown in the mix also, so be prepared to go riding in Morocco or cruising on the Queen Victoria to St Petersburgh, I do so hope you come with me!
COVID-19 has curtailed travelling, I have been slack with this page, I will try to spend some time updating it with some of my earlier travels that I have not yet documented. Also like a lot of Aussies we are doing quite a bit of domestic travel, so I’ll update that also!
Today we are back in the ‘normal’ world, I typed this while down there
Antarctica..... I doubt I will ever be able to truly describe it. I can see why people go there and keep going back and back! The guides were genuinely excited to see it, our cruise was the first after winter and it changes so it’s new every summer, bays changed, glaciers have moved and changed shapes, animals have moved, it’s an adventure every time.
Our plans changed as we went as we were running from a massive storm, even ‘avoiding’ it resulted in 6m waves and 10 on the Beaufort scale (it only goes to 12)... as our expedition leader said, you need to work for Antarctica - it was 8m seas and 50 knots on the return!
I don’t know what I expected I just knew I wanted to go but it surpassed anything I had imagined... every day I said ... that is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen .... to find the next day .....THAT is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!!
I have 1184 photos but they won’t capture it, I could and may (did) buy the DVD of the professional photos taken on this cruise but they won’t capture it.... I sat on a windy, beyond windy beach in the Falkland Islands and watched the waves break and the penguins wander up and down, having to cover my face with my gloves in the strongest gusts as I was being sand blasted and I felt....peace... David said I looked like a small child and that’s what I felt. The wonder children have and that we lose as we ‘grow up’... our first day on the actual Antarctica peninsula I plopped down in the snow at the top of hill.... and watched and felt....penguins, a glacier carving, the sound, the wave... and it made me cry... sounds silly doesn’t it? Actually it was tears because it was just too much, beauty, serenity, nature, us jaded humans don’t handle an overload of that easily...
It is stark, unforgiving and brutal and you could be forgiven for thinking, ice and snow... really how can that be beautiful or varied, like I said I won’t ever be able to describe it.... but apart from the beauty I think it’s the fact that it’s the only place I have been where we humans haven’t fu**ed it up, or modified it to suit. It is a constant battle to keep it that way so fingers crossed the 38 countries involved in the treaty stop the few who are trying to mine, fish, whale the area. There are remnants of the evil history down here of whaling etc but they are past and the natural state has reverted, yesterday we were surrounded on our ship by 100+ whales, 3(maybe 4) different types and walking on shore penguins wander around in front and beside you without a care in the world because they haven’t learnt to be frightened of us!! I can not tell you how exciting and moving that is... they do look at you, hmmm you are a weird looking penguin and not sure I like the red jacket but I have somewhere to be so off I go... that’s why I try to sit and just absorb it...
We even have to take care to step over their little penguin highways coz they all follow a track they make so their little legs can get through the snow... and everyone does!!! Absolutely step over it, take care, give way to the penguin, don’t get too close to the seal.. polite humans... who knew?? I think it’s part of the magic...
If I was younger and had found this years ago I could imagine studying relevant subjects and being involved down here, it is the only place that I have found that is magical, one person described it as spiritual; I think both are words that try to describe the feeling it inspires but both are inadequate...
I have been very lax with this and I apologize... I havent stopped traveling I just haven’t had the time to write about it all and post
I will though post a deeply personal insight I made while recently in Antarctica, I have thought long and hard and even though it is a bit smultzy and more close to my heart than anything I have put up previously, Antarctica is its own special place so I will put it out there ... don’t get me started on Antarctica... I will waffle on for hours, prior to that trip if someone asked where my favourite place I would probably have a handful or more... London on a good day, Istanbul, St. Petersburg... etc etc.
Antarctica has its own page way ahead of anywhere else... it is it’s own special place. I called it magical, someone else called it spiritual... I think it is both
Off to Antarctica, I have sooo many trips to catch up on, motorbike ride in the Pyrenees, cruise Croatia, the Ghan, hmmm best get onto it!
I am off to Antarctica in November, I will need to get writing!
Off to Antarctica in November, will have to get my act together and write about it, fingers crossed the weather is kind or the blog may be all about the bathroom on the cruise ship!
Just back from another trip, Portugal, motorbike ride the Pyrenees followed by a leisurely cruise!
I will get back to this, I am still traveling and enjoying what the world has to offer, I just need to write about it!!!!
I am back! I have started writing my Morocco blogs and will load some soon but for now a light hearted look at a sightly crazy stopover in Beijing airport!
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Just finished an absolutely amazing Moroccan motorbike tour!! I will be writing writing writing soooon!! Was simply wonderful
I am off to Spain, Morocco, Amsterdam and the TT at IOM next week! Morocco is motorbike riding! I am looking forward to it all but Morocco in particular!,
I am working through this blog
I have not made recommendations for hotels etc, if I find anyone actual,y was to that info I can and will.
To date it's been a bit of a story, some info, some things I discovered that might help your discovery!
So far I have touched on
Motorbike riding in the European Alps
Thailand
Italy
Paris
Train trip Berlin to Istanbul
And IOM TT
Lots more to write, Nth Italy riding, cruise to Russia for starters and lots more places to go
Morocco motorbike riding and IOM in 4 weeks time!
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