One of my favorite podcasts is BBC Desert Island disks, where guests have to chose 8 songs they would take with them if cast away on a desert island, songs that carry special meaning for them and/or define different stages of their life. Between 2010 and 2019, I worked in Doha, Qatar, during which time…

One is spoiled for choice when choosing a trek to do in Nepal. My selection criteria was pretty simple: I wanted to do a longer and more challenging trek than the Khopra Danda trek my wife and I had done in 2017. The 3 passes trek certainly fit the bill. Featured below are some visual…

In August 2018 I travelled briefly to Northern Albania, a trip which included three days of hiking in the majestic Accursed Mountains. Recently emerging from 50 years of brutal Communist rule, Albania, with its miles and miles of beautiful coastline and absolutely stunning mountain scenery, will no doubt  attract an increasing number of tourists in…

In August of 2018, I hiked for 6 days on the Alpe Adria trail, a 43 stage, 750 km marked trail that covers parts of Austria, Slovenia and Italy. The byline for the trail is “Hiking in the Garden of Eden”, thus the corny title of this post. I started on Stage 23 in the…

In 2017 my wife and I traveled to Nepal in what turned out to be one of the most memorable and rewarding holidays we have ever had. I really hope that some of the photos featured here will do justice to the beauty and diversity the country has to offer. We usually trekked for 4 to 6…

The “Paris of the Middle East”, Beirut is a city I had heard many good things about but had never got around to visiting. Part of my reluctance to travel there was due to the fact that the city, and the country of Lebanon as a whole, always had the specter of conflict hanging over…

Wake up early, put on smelly hiking gear, have coffee, find and follow the yellow arrows, walk, have breakfast, walk a little more, have lunch, walk for another 2-3 hours, find a place to rest our heads, shower, then head out to explore a new town. Such was the beautiful simplicity of our life on…