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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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From culture shock to panda bears

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on April 20, 2019May 28, 2019
  • China

Arriving in China felt like we’d landed on an entirely different planet. One where we didn’t know the customs, how things worked or how to behave, where we couldn’t even communicate or manage the basics […]

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Galapagos – The Enchanted Isles

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on March 30, 2016February 13, 2019
  • Ecuador stories

The Galápagos Islands are most famous for the role they played in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. I was quite surprised to learn that he was only ashore here for less than a month. He […]

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Coroico in the Clouds

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on February 26, 2016April 8, 2016
  • Bolivia stories

The old road from La Paz to Coroico used to be THE actual worst road in the world, also known as the ‘death road’. It’s still used for cycling thrill seekers, although a number of […]

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Misfits, Missionaries and Herbal Tea

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on February 6, 2016September 22, 2017
  • Bolivia stories

Paraguay is a fascinating country. Compared to other places in South America there’s not a lot to see in terms of amazing or famous sites – scenery or architecture – but there are some hidden […]

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Wildlife and Waterfalls in Iguazu

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on January 19, 2016September 21, 2017
  • Argentina stories

It’s been a bit of hard travelling to get from the bottom of Uruguay to the top of Argentina – part exhilaration, part tedium and part comedy of errors. There were some painfully long bus […]

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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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