I´m ready to go! I have been in Sevilla for 2 days and tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn I will head off from my host´s house for the Cathedral and then my first steps on the Camino de Santiago - Via de la Plata. So the butterflies are ...

another looooong drive on bumpy roads. The stunning surroundings made the endurance worthwhile though. We drove through green grassy hills for most of the day, and just when I started wondering if the country would be entirely devoid of trees I saw my first tree in Mongolia - and my second - and then a whole forest!! It is unclear to me whether forests have been cleared or that trees simply don't grow on the steppes, but it was somewhat weird to see trees again for the first time in&nbs...

After about another hour of tramping through Laos mud and with no sign of the jeep as yet, we came to a river crossing. Here there was a stilted hut with no walls but a thatched roof under which we could shelter from the rain and rest for a while. Unfortunately, the ladder up into the hut was missing the bottom two rungs. Naomi and Xavi decided to continue walking whilst the rest of us eyed up the dry space of the hut. An aged local man, obviously the keeper of the narrow bridge across ...

Well i have now met the group that i will be travelling with for the next 29 days. although some are leaving us in Singapore and another few are joining us down to Bali. the group seems really nice so far. there is a good mix. Sanj is a 26 year old London maths teacher, Tina is 21 and works with the homeless in Dundee, Gill is bout 40 from Brisbane (dont know what she does yet), Craig is about 36 from Brisbane and is a retired baker. The others are Dutch but havent got to know them properly y...

Lanseria - Mala Mala - Polokwane - Limpopo Valley - Francistown - Kanana - Kasane - Livingstone - Kasane - Gweta - Francistown - Lanseria Total distance by air 1663 nm