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For 12 years I ran a travel blog which is now closed. I like traveling and writing things up so decided to add that to this site, but not by country. Wildlife will still be main emphasis.

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Back in Tangier again

While the sun was nice and hot, the rest of my time in Agadir was very poor electricity which finally...
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Winter on the edge of the Sahara

January and February 2024 were spent in Tangier. I wrote two books, yet to be published, did a few wander...
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Thirteen Years

I sat on my balcony, filled up my pipe and had a smoke. Some blog software for a Hewlett Packard...
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The ruins

The day was extremely windy as I went for a walk eastward from where I was staying while in Morocco...
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Macedonian mess

In May 2024 I spent a few days in the Isle of Man, where I was born. My trip to...
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Orkoien

Summer of 2024 say me losing out on a lot of places because buses had been dropped to many small...
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Barasoain

About 16 miles south of Pamplona is the small town of Barasoain. It was a fairly cool day and I...
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Beriain old town

Not far from where I stayed for June in Pamplona, the number 16 bus stops. Eight years ago I visited...
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Etxauri

The morning was cool as I headed to the bus station in Pamplona with the intention of checking out the...
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Pamplona's parks

Just about every city on earth has parks. Even smaller towns do, then there is London which is full of...
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San Fermin 2024

The San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, Spain is probably the biggest party on the planet, attended by people from all...
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Charf

When I did my morning walks In Tangier, sometimes the route taken had this scarp in the background. It wasn't...
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Castletown

During my visit to the Isle of Man in May 2024, I went to Castletown, in the south of the...
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Asilah

I had reached a writers block back in January and needed something different. Looking at the map the town of...
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Ksar es Seghir

February had finally arrived. My time in Morocco was dragging out and it seemed I had been there for ages,...
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On the hill

A fair walk from where I was staying in Tanja is a hill with some housing on, a kind of...
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Tanja Kasbah

Back in late January I needed a break from writing my book and figured doing something different was in store....
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A time in Tanja

Some ways down the street, a man was walking along with a slight limp. He held a stick to help...
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Beer Sheva disaster

I had saved up a fair amount of money, got a really decent price for the plane and would have...
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Local trips from Pamplona

Once settled in at the room I rented, the possibility of spending the usual time visiting little villages in the...
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Pamplona in the Fall

On my old blog I used to do a traditional post of my journies to Pamplona, in the Basque Region...
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Visit to the Negev

I visited Israel again and spent some time in the Negev Desert alone. Arriving on a Thursday evening meant having...
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First time in Jerusalem

A long, long time ago there was this range of hills tucked away from just about everywhere. In those hills...




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