• Buonasera (Good evening) Venice is all that and soooo much more. I was so scared that I’d made it out to be something that it might not live up to but it has no disappointed.  It’s very surreal to finally…

  • After the most incredible buffet breakfast I have ever laid eyes on, not just the quantity but the variety of food, I hit the streets.  It wasn’t snowing when I started out and walking was dicey because the streets was icy…baha.  If I thought walking in snow was hard, the sludge and ice was rather tricky however I managed to stay on my feet…thankfully.
    Sunrise was around 9am and the

  • Flying into Helsinki, it was still pitch black and I couldn’t see any sign of life.  The landing gear was down but no lights, nothing until just before we landed and I can finally see a few houses and snow on the tress and I was a little excited.  The airport is 30 mins from the city so I decided to take the airport shuttle bus and  I scavenged the

  • The first leg is done, the flight was uneventful, which I always consider a good thing and I’m sitting here a Changai Airport in Singapore watching the passing parade.  There’s people meandering and there’s people racing past…although that could the travelators that are making them look like they are moving so fast 🙂 and then of course there’s the ones like me just sitting here waiting for the next flight

  • I’m back in Kathmandu 🙁 but I feel like I haven’t really told much of the trekking story so will try and fill in some of the blanks. Please excuse the typos…..crappy keyboard (because my typing is perfect of course)….

  • I was also thinking of titling this: Lindy’s Everest or Easy to moderate trek – my arse Well I’m back in civilisation which is a bit of a disappointment after the pristine environment of the Himalayas. To tell the story…

  • I had to change hotels from where I was staying to the one the tour is using which turned out to be a major feat and there’s an entire story that I really can be bothered imparting at the moment….

  • Hi there again I realised I’ve been very remiss and while I’ve told you A LOT about what I’ve been doing, I haven’t told you much about anything else. Besides the people being devout Buddhists, they are generally a fairly…

  • As promised or briefly alluded to really, I’ll fill you in on the last couple of days. Yesterday was a drive through from Punakha to Paro, stopping for the photos of the Himalayas minus the cloud this time at Dochu-La…