My travels

Alas, due to the enormous importance of cutting global greenhouse gas emissions, I have been travelling far less in recent years. In particular, I have been trying to avoid flying, since it both emits a lot of carbon dioxide per distance travelled and encourages people to travel far greater distances. –This video expresses a bit of what I feel about all this.

To facilitate the location of posts from various trips I have taken during the existence of this blog, I have created the following listing. Trips are listed in reverse chronological order, while entries within trips are in normal chronological order. Note that the corresponding photos can be found on the ‘my photos‘ page.

Vancouver: 22 December 2009 – 7 January 2010

New York City: 29-31 July 2008

• Central Park Studios hostel, Manhattan

Morocco: 20-27 June 2007

• Safely in Morocco
• Essaouira
• Gnawa Festival day two
• Paper or plastic
• Up the beach by night
• Unfortunate felines
• Solo again
• Gueliz
• Atlasward
• Falling water

Lake District: 1-3 June 2007

• Back from the Lakes
• f = m * a

Paris: 26-30 April 2007

• Brief Parisian Hello
• Cursory Louvre Post
• Correction: re, Paris and London
• Montmartre and the Tower
• Sewers, lightning, and Notre Dame
• An ideal traverse

Devon: 31 March – 7 April 2007

Wales: 9-12 March 2007

• Atop Snowdon
• Welsh surprises

Turkey: 4-16 December 2006

• From Sabiha Goklen airport to Old Istanbul (Sultanahmet)
• Initial bearings established
• Herbivorous adventures
• Notable domes of Istanbul
• Intercontinental crossings
• More Turkish neighbourhoods
• Visiting Turkey’s chilly interior
• Within volcanic rock
• Goreme stargazing
• Educational visit
• First Turkey photos
• Farewell to Capadocia
• Two people, and three days, left
• Cursing Nicotiana species’
• Madness and unlikely meetings
• Muttering Turkish conclusion

Barrier Lake: 8-10 September 2006

• Cabin Fever II departure
• Super generic CF2 post
• CF2 concluded

Ireland: 16-23 August 2006

• Emerald Isle Arrival
• Dynamic First Day in Dublin
• Art, Beer, and Street Crime
• Friday Night Dublin
• From Russia with Love
• Manuscripts, Horses, and Evensong
• Galway
• Inis Mór
• Final Galway Adventure
• Final, literary, Dublin Day
• Last Dublin Meal

Scotland: 27-31 July 2006

• Off to Scotland – goodbye until Monday
• Scotland Summary

Malta: 25 March – 1 April 2006

• Malta introduction
• On Valletta and Jeffrey Sachs
• Gozo Visit
• Final post from Malta

Estonia and Finland: 16-22 December 2005

• Tallinn
• Alone in Helsinki
• Nightime walk in Helsinki
• Happy Winter Solstice, from Tallinn

Unfortunately, trips from the time period before this incarnation of the blog existed are not documented here. That said, bits of information about them (including many photos) can be found on other sites of mine.