Tag: photo
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Nicaragua – The Beginning
Nicaragua, the largest of the countries in the Central American isthmuses, a very much up and coming destination for backpackers and holiday tourists, is often cited in magazines and websites as a top holiday destination to discover and explore. It was a renewed sense of adventure that we passed through customs and border control relatively…
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Tikal
We alighted in the small lake ‘island’ of Flores early on in the evening with tour operators trying to sell us tours, and drivers telling us that bank machines were closed and to use other ones that only they know. Luckily we had been warned of the pre-alighting sales blurb and falsities that are thrown…
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San Frantastic
After two rocky days aboard ship, we alighted in the hilly, eccentric, free spirited city of San Francisco. I felt as though we had properly started ‘travelling’; the Alaskan portion of our adventure feeling more of a splurge, a calm before the storm, an expense before the backpacking penny pinching – and we were excited.…
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Maui Part 2 – The Holiday We Envisaged
This is part two of my blog posting on our trip to Maui. The first part can be found here It says something about this enchanting island that after 4 days we hadn’t partaken on a ‘beach day’ yet; added to Han’s need for surf, sea and sand, this was doubly surprising. However, in a sun…
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Maui – The Island of Adjectives
This is part one of my blog posting on our trip to Maui. The second part can be found here I didn’t know quite what to expect when first landing on the island of Maui in the Islands of Hawai’i, America’s 50th state (being annexed in 1898) – my preconceptions had it as a sandy…
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HDR Playtime
Over the past 2-3 years I’ve started to invest a little more time in the art of photography; trying to capture that perfect shot that epitomises the feeling and scenery that I see infront of me, get the awe and wonder of nature into a little rectangular world for others to see, and to try and convey…