Sunday, December 07, 2025

Corfu

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In September 1990, I spent four days on the island of Corfu while backpacking around Europe . After exploring Italy’s iconic northern cities...
Saturday, December 06, 2025

Farewell Scandinavia

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Here’s another retrospective blog post. This time we’re off to Copenhagen as part of the Eurail backpacking odyssey that Dean Keiller and...
Thursday, December 04, 2025

Stockholm on a shoestring

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Time for another retrospective post. Let’s continue my backpacking journey through Europe with Dean Keiller, a sheep farmer from Victoria...
Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Time travel

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I’ve been on a bit of a retrospective posting binge lately. For the last month, I’ve been drafting and publishing posts about the three mon...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

In search of paradise

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It’s time for a final post about my journey through Eastern Europe in 1990. At the time, I was travelling with a group of 12 as part of a YW...

Tampons and toilet paper

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Here’s more about my time in Bulgaria in 1990. If you’ve been following the journey so far, a dozen of us spent three months travelling thr...

The Black Sea

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In 1990, I spent three weeks travelling through Bulgaria, just seven months after the nation’s Communist Government had voluntarily ceded po...

Bullet holes in Bucharest

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Time for another retrospective post. This time, we’ll complete the story of my journey through Romania in 1990. At the time, I was travellin...