We’re sorting through our possessions into piles: Take travelling, keep but store, sell, donate to charity store, recycle and, worst case, put into landfill (which we actively try to avoid). I’ve not found it that difficult to sort things into piles. Certainly far less of the mental tug-of-war and the “should I, shouldn’t I?” in-head […]

Two days ago, I posted a Gumtree.com advert for an old computer that I no longer need and have been lugging from house to house as I move around London. I gave it a couple of days to sell and, this morning, took the ‘pooter down to my local recycling centre. No sooner than I […]

Family and friends aside — who I’m obviously going to miss dearly — there are a number of things that are dear to me and that I reckon I will miss as we travel. Thought that I’d take a moment here to list them for posterity. My Oskimo slippers all the way from sunny South […]

Continued from Buddha & Breakfast… As I and one of the other retreatants were browsing the weekend’s itinerary, we noticed worriedly that the plans for the evening included ‘chanting’ and ‘silence over night’. After dinner we all went to the shrine room to learn the second form of Buddhist meditation known as ‘Cultivation of Loving […]

…the alternative B+B I’m a planner. Always have been, always will be. Or so I thought, until my recent, and rather pleasant, encounter with Buddhism. Our decision not to plan our travels in any detail is hard for a planner. What will I have to organise and worry about? What if this, what if that? […]

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Woa there horsey! We’re just starting out ourselves and so it’s probably a little too soon to answer this one effectively. We’ll be posting our travel tips as we go along that we hope you’ll find useful. For starters, I just finished reading The Rough Guide to the First-Time Around the World which offers guidance […]

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