Category Archives: Travel tips
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Let’s Fly
Posted on January 8, 2016 by noflytri in China, Travel tips.Traitor! Splitter! Turncoat! Coward! No I haven’t joined the Judean People’s Front, but what with a new year being a new slate, perhaps it is time to start 2016 with a confession… Link to this post!
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What’s it like being back?
Posted on November 9, 2015 by noflytri in Travel tips.I’ve not written one of these for a while, but having been back now for 3 entire months and finding myself somewhat tired of seemingly spending all my time writing out numerous different versions of my CV, I thought it might be rather healthy to try to write something else, something I actually enjoy writing […]
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My all-in-one guide to travel in Burma/Myanmar
Posted on August 26, 2015 by noflytri in Burma/Myanmar, South East Asia, Travel tips.Ok its been almost 6 months since I actually visited there, but one of the destinations I am asked most about whilst I was travelling, and am still asked about now I’ve got back is about tips for visiting Burma/Myanmar. Whilst I have resisted the slightly pointless urge to try to come up with a […]
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And so it ends…
Posted on July 30, 2015 by noflytri in Top Experiences, Travel tips.Any blog written on a Eurostar back home to see you family for the first time in 17 months whilst suffering from lack of sleep and being simultaneously high on caffeine and a bit drunk is unlikely to be my finest work. So forgive me if the quality of the prose in this post is […]
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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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An ode to Amtrak – Why you should take it and some helpful hints…
Posted on July 9, 2015 by noflytri in train journey's, trains, Travel tips, USA.Ok it’s not actually an ode as in a song… Having spent the equivalent of a week living on Amtrak trains over the last two months, and having really rather enjoyed most of that week, I felt I should put a quick post together highlighting the best bits about travelling America by train and some […]
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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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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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How to get to Jinshanling Great Wall from Beijing by public transport (and save $$$)
Posted on October 29, 2014 by noflytri in China, Travel tips.Visiting the Great Wall is, well, great. But it can be busy and expensive. And tours to the less busy places like Jinshanlin can be even more expensive. At my hostel a tour to Jinshanjing would set you back 345 Chinese RMB which is about £25-35, or $40-50. Which seems a bit much. Luckily there […]
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Catching a ride on a cargo Ferry from Baku – Part 2. The journey and a bit of Kazakhstan
Posted on July 8, 2014 by noflytri in Azerbaijan, Boats, First Impressions, Kazakhstan, train journey's, Travel tips.The feeling of getting on the boat when trying to cross the Caspian Sea is one of a great weight being lifted from your shoulders. You’ve done your bit now; you’ve done all the walking to and from the port, you’ve done your bit arranging Visa’s and registration forms, and you’ve done your bit trying […]
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