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Cusco – Capital of the Inca Empire
This is my sixth post from the February 2026 Kingdoms of the Andes tour with Adventures Abroad. For the first week of the tour we have been exploring the capital city of Lima and the coastal area below it including flying over the fabled Nazca Lines. In this post we’ll leave the lowlands behind and […]
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Whangarei – New Zealand’s Surprising Northland City
In 2025 Alison and I spent a far amount of time in the far north of New Zealand known as Northland. We checked out the Nova Scotia connection at the Waipu Museum, we played golf at the incomparable Kauri Cliffs. we explored the Bay of Islands by boat and we drove to the very top […]
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Melbourne – A Most Victorian City
This is my second post from a March 2026 tour of Australia with Adventures Abroad. In the first post I gave an overview of the entire trip from Melbourne to Sydney with stops at Canberra, Cairns, Darwin, Alice Springs and Uluru. In this post I’m going to examine the things that make Melbourne perhaps the […]
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Lima – Peru’s City of Kings
This is my sixth post from a February 2026 Kingdoms of the Andes tour to Peru and Bolivia with Adventures Abroad. I had opted for this particular tour because it included the Nazca lines and the Ballestas Islands, two places not found on most Peruvian itineraries. The city of Ica with its famous winery, great […]
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Hobbiton – Well Worth a Visit
In 2025 Alison and I visited the Weta Workshop in Wellington where most of the props for the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies were created. In 2026 I returned to New Zealand a few days ahead of Alison with the intention of visiting another place associated with these great fantasy films, Hobbiton. In this post […]
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Ica Peru – Wine, Mummies & Mystery
This is my fifth post from the February 2026 trip to Peru and Bolivia with Adventures Abroad. In the first post I gave an overview of the entire tour and in the next three extolled the virtues of Lima’s Miraflores district, overflew the mysterious Nazca lines and then added life listers to my birding atlas […]
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Australia with Adventures Abroad
Alison and I have just completed another journey of a lifetime with Adventures Abroad. This time it was the vast continent of Australia and in this post I’ll explain why I thought this itinerary was about the best way to get an introduction to The Land Down Under. Realistically, just as you could not expect […]
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Ballestas Islands – Peru’s Offshore Birding Paradise
In the last post we got the Adventures Abroad Kingdoms of the Andes tour off to a great start with a fly over of the mysterious Nazca Lines. In this post we’ll stay in the Paracas area, but take a boat rather than a plane to explore the birding haven of the Ballestas Islands where […]
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Paraparaumu Beach G.C. Hole by Hole
In 2025 Alison and I were fortunate enough to play three great New Zealand golf courses, Kauri Cliffs, Cape Kidnappers and the Coronet course at Millbrook Resort. Returning to the North Island in 2026 we only had the chance to play one course, Paraparaumu Beach, which is considered to be the spiritual home of Kiwi […]
From the road
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April 20th, 2023
I’ve had a bad case of writer’s block since getting back from Southeast Asia, but I did finish this post on the fan… https://t.co/HoJjP4jeha
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April 12th, 2023
One of the main reasons to visit the Galapagos is to see the giant tortoises. This latest post explains where you c… https://t.co/mQ8PWha8j3
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April 11th, 2023
Spring is very late this year so it’s nice to see the crocuses finally show up. https://t.co/7HD6wvsEJ6
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April 9th, 2023
Sunday morning is a good time to reflect back on another Sunday in Reading, England which I wrote about here:… https://t.co/EJ4Is2NSqz