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I realised yesterday that I had never got round to recounting my walk across India on the blog.
I had never heard of the Kaveri River until I decided to walk across India. I could only squeeze a 6-week trip into my calendar so I cast my eye southwards down India’s triangular shape until I reached [...]
I’ve always dreamed of hopping onto a freight train in America, rumbling thousands of miles from coast to coast, reading Kerouac and Huck Finn, hiding from cartoonish guards and learning the ropes from vagabonds.
So I’ve been a bit engrossed by this website full of all sorts of useful tips for the budding train hopper.
“Sure, [...]
Photos from my travels in Asia
Night in Ho Chi Minh
Georgian church
Istanbul skyline
Street cleaners in Mysore
River paddler, Vietnam
Soviet hammer and sickle
Poster boy, Tamil Nadu
Tori on Honshu
Boys outside Ashgabat
Choose your weapon
A long climb, Xinjiang
Sweeper boy
Morning lessons
Hong Kong airport
In praise of the humble bivvy bag: some of the stupid (yet wonderfully memorable and uplifting) open air places I have slept.
- On a swimming platform out in the bay in San Sebastian
- On the terraces of Biarritz rugby stadium (a bit of fence climbing required here!)
- In a (new) sewage pipe in Turkey and [...]
Far-fetched with tales of other worlds and ways,
My skin well-oiled with wines of the Levant,
I set my face into a filial smile
To greet the pale, domestic kiss of Kent.
But shall I never learn? That gawky girl,
Recalled so primly in my foreign thoughts,
Becomes again the green-haired queen of love
Whose wanton form dilates as it delights.
Her rolling [...]
I asked Darren Alff if he would be so kind as to share some wisdom on how people can make a living from doing what they love. Here’s what he had to say.
Travel costs money… and depending on where you plan to go in the world, it may cost a lot of money! But [...]
I wonder how many years I will need to wait until I ever get myself onto somebody’s list of Top Travel books?!
A long time, I fear, if I am competing against books as good as these.
Whoever picked these books for the Telegraph chose well.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning [...]
The Travel Bookshop in London (as seen in the film Notting Hill) has come up with their Top 10 Travel Books.
I have read 6 of their suggestions. I agree that a Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Kon-Tiki Expedition and The Places In Between all deserve to be in the list. However the [...]
I spend a lot of my time speaking in schools, trying to encourage young people to indulge in a little bold dreaming.
One question that I am often asked is what inspired me to begin travelling and living the way I do.
My answer is that I enjoyed reading books of great journeys (in particular Living Dangerously [...]
Merry Christmas everybody!
A perfect Photo Friday today: Peter Gostelow watching the sunrise on Christmas morning high in the Himalayas. Follow Peter’s latest journey into Africa here.
Right, I’m off runnin’, swimmin’ and then lots of eatin’!
Alastair spent 4 years cycling 46,000 miles round the world, a journey described as "the first great adventure of the new millennium". He is currently training for SOUTH, the first unsupported return journey to the South Pole. Click here to read more.
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