Category: travel
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![Packing for a minimalist one year journey[2/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//2014-12-02-11.59.53.jpg)
Packing for a minimalist one year journey[2/50]
There are many travel blogs with informative posts about packing for long periods of travel (for one year or more). Many blog posts convey hard-earned wisdom. However, the authors often need to mention that they are getting paid to promote the products and destinations they describe. So, always read travel blogs critically, and I will…
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![From Fitzroy to Fitz Roy[1/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//Fitz-Roy.jpg)
From Fitzroy to Fitz Roy[1/50]
Starting in January 2015, I will take a one-year break to travel slowly and write about travelling. I will travel from Fitzroy in Melbourne, Australia, to Fitz Roy in Patagonia, Argentina (and yes, they are both named after the same illegitimate Fitz Royals!). It is something that I have wanted to do for a pretty…
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Post card from London
I am sitting in my little room overlooking the strand. The room is on the corner of the Strand and Waterloo Bridge, and despite the size of the room, the view is extensive. And this song by the Kinks is running through my head. Dirty Old River, must you keep rolling, rolling into the night.…
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Post card from Tallinn
I arrived last night in my charming hostel in the Old Town of Tallinn, Estonia. My friend Jaan, whom I worked with in Melbourne a couple of years ago, greeted me at the airport. Estonia is the 42nd country I have visited, and I am not sure why I count how many countries I have…
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Uncommon choices: The Australian Festival of Travel Writing
I am attending the Australian Festival of Travel Writing at the University of Melbourne this weekend. I have never been to such an event and find it extremely useful as two important life narratives; travel and education- have come together. In my case, they have never really been linked except that a love of independent…
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Wanderlust
A personal project that I have been working on in my spare time over the past few months involved locating, digitising, tagging, and putting into neat little country boxes (on Flikr) all the photos that I have taken on my travels since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. And there are a lot…