Category Archives: Adventure
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Crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a 38,000 tonne container ship
Posted on July 21, 2015 by noflytri in Adventure, Boats, Photoblog, Top Experiences, Travel tips.I have crossed the ocean and arrived in Belgium – Wooo! Once I have posted this I can go eat chocolate and waffles and drink beer! – Double Wooo! I had thought that having already put up a blog about crossing the oceans writing a second one would be more difficult, that there wouldn’t be […]
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Taking a freighter across the Atlantic Ocean
Posted on July 10, 2015 by noflytri in Adventure, Boats, USA.So, it’s almost time. And indeed, a few hours after posting this it will have already begun… The Voyage to Belgium (rejected title for Star Trek IV). Not quite home, but pretty damn close. In my mind I’m still half expecting something to go wrong. Some unnecessary complication, despite travelled this way now once before […]
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A Grand Sunset…
Posted on July 6, 2015 by noflytri in Adventure, Arizona, Photoblog, Top Experiences, USA.I would guess that most people go to the Grand Canyon with, well grand expectations – I suppose I was somewhat the opposite of that – my expectations were actually reasonably low having previously been to the similarly massive Copper Canyon in Mexico, which I was able to get to easily by public transport and […]
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The Copper Canyon – like the Grand Canyon, but bigger and with Zip-lines (and no copper…)
Posted on May 3, 2015 by noflytri in Adventure, Mexico, Photoblog, Top Experiences.It’s the feeling that got me into travelling in the first place, it’s the feeling that time and time again has instantly recharged my travelling batteries and made me just want to cry out at how beautiful and amazing the world is. Link to this post!
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Crossing the Pacific Ocean on a 100,000 tonne container ship
Posted on March 30, 2015 by noflytri in Adventure, Boats, Top Experiences.So, I’ve made it! All the way to Mexico from Japan by sea on a container ship. Was it what I was expecting? Yes and no. Was it good? Yes Would I do it again? Yes (which is a reassuring answer as I will be crossing the Atlantic in little over 3 months time…) Link […]
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Taking a Freighter Across the Pacific
Posted on March 13, 2015 by noflytri in Adventure, Travel tips.So my plan has become to travel around the world without flying. When I mention this to people one of the first questions I get is how will I get across the Oceans – and my answer has been to arrange passage on container ships to cross the worlds two greatest oceans. The first of […]
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The strain of taking the train in Burma/Myanmar…
Posted on February 11, 2015 by noflytri in Adventure, Burma/Myanmar, South East Asia, train journey's, trains.With increased investment in roads, transport times between cities and towns in Burma/Myanmar are steadily falling, and on the main routes, the standard of buses can be amongst the best in South East Asia, and indeed companies like JJ Express (which stands apparently for Joyous Journey Express – which, good as it is, is probably […]
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Beautiful and terrifying – Getting active in Cat Ba Island
Posted on November 13, 2014 by noflytri in Adventure, South East Asia, Sport, Top Experiences, Travel tips, Vietnam.Having high expectations of a place when travelling is always a dangerous thing. So often you can build something up to the point that the reality has no way of meeting the illusion you have created in your mind. Often for me, I will arrive at a place to find that an over abundance of […]
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