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Author: Adventurous Hermit

Magnificent Ukraine

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on December 28, 2021December 28, 2021
  • Europe

Ukraine is a wonderful surprise, full of interesting, unusual and amazing things. I knew next to nothing about it and had a vague (and totally baseless) idea that it might be a kind of emptier, […]

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Adventures in Moldova

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on October 10, 2021October 11, 2021
  • Europe

Moldova is kind of unusual. It’s a little bit this and a little bit that. Generally, I found the Moldovans to be quite reserved. Not really friendly or unfriendly, just sort of minding their own […]

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Chasing vampires and bears

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on September 2, 2021September 2, 2021
  • Europe

I’ve always wanted to explore Romania for its fascinating folklore, fairytale castles, and dark forests with wolves and bears, and especially Transylvania for the vampires.

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Spring in Neykovo

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on July 18, 2021July 18, 2021
  • Bulgaria

While we were off gallivanting in Malta, the greyscale Bulgarian winter was transformed into full Disney technicolour. I had no idea our village of Neykovo could be so beautiful. All the deciduous trees, that I […]

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The many layers of Malta

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on April 19, 2021April 20, 2021
  • Europe

When my father’s family migrated to Australia from Scotland in 1927, their ship stopped in Malta. He kept a couple of old photos in his photo tin that always fascinated me. It looked so beautiful […]

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Moving to Bulgaria

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on December 27, 2020February 2, 2022
  • Bulgaria

The English summer came and went in the blink of an eye, suspended in an anti-COVID bubble. There’s nowhere prettier (or more fun) than England in the summertime but this time there were no parties, […]

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House hunting in Bulgaria

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on March 29, 2020February 2, 2022
  • Bulgaria

When ‘the virus’ exploded across the world stage, we were house hunting in Bulgaria. A bit random you might think, but we’ve had this idea for a while – or more of a ‘wish’ really […]

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From the Black Sea to Bignall End

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on February 20, 2020February 21, 2020
  • Bulgaria

In my last post – Good times in Georgia, we’d just crossed the Black Sea by cargo ferry and arrived in the Bulgarian port of Burgas. The sea wasn’t black at all in Bulgaria but […]

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Good times in Georgia

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on July 29, 2019February 20, 2020
  • Europe

Georgia is a breath of fresh air. We seem to have been crossing the hot dry desert for ages and ages. Now that we’re in the green mountains, it feels like coming home. At last […]

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Oil, fire and pomegranates

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on July 11, 2019July 29, 2019
  • Azerbaijan

We were rudely awoken from our cabin on the Caspian Sea ferry and unceremoniously dumped in Azerbaijan at 4am. I was still asleep on arrival and would have really liked to just curl up in […]

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About me

I have always been a wanderer, a traveller, a seeker-of-adventures.

Growing up on a farm outside the small, pretty village of Urbenville at the edge of the Border Ranges, Northern Rivers NSW Australia, I spent my childhood poring over atlases and dreaming of faraway places.

When I finished school I worked for a few months, saved some money and set off travelling to Europe – and I never really stopped. The longest I stayed in one place between Urbenville and the age of 40 was 3 years.

Somehow, in the middle of life I got stuck. The longer I stayed still, the harder it was to move. I got so comfortable that I put down roots and turned into a hermit.

So, in the spirit of shaking things up, my partner JH and I are off on adventures outside the hermit-hole. This blog is about the journey.

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