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My travel adventures!
flâneur /flaˈnəː/ Loosely translated from the French as "a person who roams around, deliberately aimless, just observing life."
Puerto Montt and it's amazing fish market
Another rainy day in Southern Chile and I am off to see the Angelmo fish markets about a 45 minute walk from my hotel. The first part of...
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Apr 181 min read
Heading north
Left Castro on a rainy day (I think it rains here every day) to head back to mainland Chile, but took a detour via Dalcahue which is a...
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Apr 181 min read
Barking Mad
There is one thing that Chileans have plenty of and that's dogs. There are thousands of them and for some reason they all decide to bark...
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Apr 162 min read
Time to head back north?
Well not yet - It's taken nearly 20 hours of driving and numerous toll fees to get here. That little blue dot south of Santiago is me. In...
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Apr 151 min read
Kleines Deutschland (Little Germany)
A short drive today to a fascinating part of Chile. Following revolutions in Europe in 1848, 6,000 German families set sail for Lake...
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Apr 141 min read
The Chile I was looking for!
Arrived in Valdivia yesterday arvo and went for a walk around town. First thing I noticed was there were a lot of smiling faces, this is...
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Apr 132 min read
A rainy day on the road
Drove from Tulca to Los Angeles yesterday and it was pretty much raining the whole way. Not sure they receive a lot of rain around here...
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Apr 122 min read
Don't ever use booking.com
I set off early this morning from Valparaiso, over the hill behind my hotel, but my car struggled and I was lucky to make it up the steep...
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Apr 102 min read
Valparaiso surprises
A cold morning of 13*C and a little rain so I set off to explore the town of Valparaiso. After a while wandering through the steep...
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Apr 92 min read
That’s not a hill!
On the road, but nearly wasn’t, as I picked up the hire car for the next few weeks from the Santiago airport, and began the drive to...
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Apr 81 min read
Sunday in Santiago
This morning I set off to take the Sky Costanera to the top of the tallest observatory of the tallest skyscraper in South America, But...
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Apr 71 min read
A little bit underwhelming!
Took off this morning for a 15km walk (about 5 hours) around the city to try to find some notable landmarks. But only a few historical...
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Apr 61 min read
It’s great to be back on the road
After an all night fight from Auckland, I arrived late afternoon?? tomorrow?? yesterday?? in Santiago, Chile, something to do with the...
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Apr 51 min read
A giant Kiwi Fruit, Cathedral Cove and ouch that sands hot!
After leaving Rotorua we made our way north via Te Puke - the kiwi fruit capital of the world. Over 100 million trays of the fruit are...
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Apr 32 min read
Napier, Lake Taupo and Rotorua
As we made our way across the North Island to Napier we happened to stop for a magnificent lunch at the Craggy Creek Vineyard and...
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Apr 22 min read
The unbeliva-bull, remarka-bull town of Bull
People say there is not much to see as you make your way across New Zealand to Napier. However we set out to prove them wrong. The views...
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Mar 262 min read
New Zealand's only glockenspiel
Day 6 and a highlight of our New Zealand road trip was from New Plymouth to Stratford to see a mechanical clock perform "Romeo and...
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Mar 252 min read
And another adventure begins
I’m off! Not in a literal sense, but on my next adventure. First across the ditch for a North Island road trip (with plenty of car...
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Mar 232 min read
That's a Wrap
Well, I am back in Lane Cove after four months of adventures through Europe. Starting in Sardinia, Corsica, France, Spain (my new...
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Aug 26, 20241 min read
Time flies when you are having fun
With four exhibition halls, over ninety aircraft, more than 2 million records, and 30 thousand artefacts, the Fleet Air Arm Museum at...
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Aug 20, 20241 min read
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