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Marrakesh Please

andyfied — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:38:49 +0000

I’m not going to go into great detail about how I tore a ligament in my ankle. This website is for travel editorials, not general discussions about my life. Suffice to say it was a sports injury (12 hour drinking marathon) and happened one week before my weekend trip in Marrakesh with the [...]

Fizzy Ale?

Z-Man — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:53:45 +0000

Whilst on an eight day tour of New Zealand’s South Island, one of the first activities planned was the journey from Christchurch, on the east coast to a town called Greymouth on the west coast. This involved an amazingly scenic ride through the ‘Southern Alps’ on a fairly rickety train. The views [...]

Machu Picchu, the Lost ‘City’ of the Incas (and guinea pigs)

Z-Man — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:10:17 +0000

Wow, my photo looked just like the brochures

Through another set of uninteresting events I found myself in Peru with (having travelled there via Amsterdam and La Paz, Bolivia). I thought I shouldn’t waste this opportunity by spending all my time in smoky bars and decided to [...]

The Worst Hostel in the World – Little Fir – Harbin

Captain Oats — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:49:31 +0000

Maybe not the WORST, we haven’t been to them all – that would be retarded/unfeasible but this one is pretty shit, as well as being indisputable PROOF that monopolies are EVIL, as it’s the only hostel in Harbin – Northern China. So the ‘good’ news is that if you’re planning to go there [...]

Review: Francofolies at La Rochelle

Dione — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:20:35 +0000

Hello travellers, this is a special heads up for any francophones out there. We’re officially on the countdown for the next insertion of Francofolies music fest, which takes place every year in France. I highly recommend going to La Rochelle during this time (the fest starts 10th July in 2009). Even if you [...]

Spain and the Sea | Part One

Baron AzA — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:02:18 +0000

There are many things in this world that scare me, even terrify me to tears, and let me tell you the wonders dear reader of the Spanish coast. Somewhere between Torremolinos and Banalmadena sandwiched between the cruel salty sea and the dusty red mountains lays the real Wild West. These are frontier towns where [...]

Platzkart or How to Keep Warm in the Russian Winter

andyfied — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:44:44 +0000

Some of you who know me may know that i have had a small jaunt down to Asia via the trans Siberian express in the past year-ish. I am not from a military background unlike my travel buddies, the Captain who has an uncanny knack of finding food in any climate and can [...]

7 Reasons Christmas in Mongolia is More Traditional than You Think

Captain Oats — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:12:26 +0000

This time last year I and my comrades were heading back to Ulaan Baatar, huddled in the back of our Russian Built version of a VW camper van, which we affectionately named ‘Nastia’. This was after a week long expedition into the Gobi Desert; we were reeking of various odours, weary and very much looking [...]