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to this independent travel site, unashamedly subjective and based entirely on
my own travel experiences and aspirations. All my life I have seen images of
far away places that fascinated me and, with the advent of cheap travel, I have
started to actually visit the objects of my dreams. I have a list of
places to see before I die and have worked out
that if I visit one each year, I will see them all and die a happy man at 120 years
of age.
The purpose of the site is to
share with you the beauty and fascination of these places; in some cases to see
what they were like many years ago when I first visited them, but also to share
some practical tips for those of you who prefer independent travel with en suite
bathrooms. I get so fed up with the assumption that you either have to
book a packaged tour of wherever and sit in a bus with your grandparents, or if
you are independent, then you must aspire to the nightlife recommendations of
"Rough Guide" or the backpacking, all the time in the world, student,
impecunious discomfort of "Lonely Planet". In my dreams I also hope that one
day the director of a travel magazine will commission me to spend the remainder
of my years floating around the world, writing and photographing my dream
destinations.
Some of you might even want to
buy my books!! In which case you can download a chapter at a time and, if
you like what you get, send me some money! That is of course if I ever get
round to setting up a Pay Pal account, or getting said books into a publishable
state. Anyway, whatever you think, please feel free to send me
your comments, add information or tell me what you think of the site.
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