Avalanches And Snow: The Hike To The Chaladi Glacier It was April in Svaneti. And the sun was just beginning to shine on this mountainous and isolated region of Georgia for the first time in months. That meant the snow was melting. The high peaks were icy in...
“Cha Cha, Vodka, Pive!” The sellers outside the Novy Afon cave entrance were attempting to cater to the unquenchable thirsts of the holidaymakers. Home brew wine, lethal spirits and beers. As the Russian tourists stocked up on their drinks for the...
Travel Doesn’t Always Go To Plan! So, things haven’t exactly gone right this August… At the end of July I had to return home, to the United Kingdom. I’ve been hanging out in London, Nottingham, and my home town Buckingham. This wasn’t...
I was unceremoniously dumped off the bus by the harsh Abkhazian bus conductor on the edge of Novy Afon. He didn’t take too kindly to my severe lack of Russian language skills- the lingua franca of the region- when I asked if this was the stop....
My Paragliding Crash In Oludeniz Turkey This is the tale of my Paragliding crash in Oludeniz, Turkey. Don’t worry I didn’t die… “Are you ready?” The pilot screamed in my ear above the roaring winds. I was as ready as I would be. This was...
“I am not Turkish. I am Kurdish”. This was the hundredth time I’d been vigorously told that this day. This was Van, in the Turkish province of Eastern Anatolia, or as I was told, the Kurdish lands. Van is a sprawling metropolis. It’s the...
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