Welcome and thanks for visiting my website. I say ‘my’ website only because I actually write the diaries but it’s not just about me. All these amazing adventures I’ve shared with my beautiful husband, Mark. For nearly thirty years we’ve travelled the world (well, a lot of it) – a few times with our daughter and grand-daughters and a few times with friends but mainly just the two of us. A couple of earlier trips were with Intrepid Travel but, as good as they were, we realised that we’d rather do it on our own.
My favourite past-time is to plan a trip – reading travellers’ blogs, taking some advice from booking.com and always with the help of the Lonely Planet guidebooks. We love to visit the more exotic countries and have only been to Europe once in all those years. Don’t want to sound clever, but I figure we can do those sorts of countries when we’re less hale and hearty.
For now, we like to go a bit off the beaten track, not always literally but more culturally, if that makes sense. We love countries where the religion, culture, food, language, everything …. is different to home. Want to be amazed every day.
And while we are backpackers, you won’t find us climbing mountains or trekking for weeks on end. But we always travel by local bus or train and stay in the cheapest places we can find – much more fun that way and always an experience.
As of now we’ve been on 44 trips and visited 38 countries. I still have a lot more diaries to write up and many more countries to visit with Mark. So much more to see.
The world is a beautiful place!
And, why the title Very Big Adventures? Every time we’d go away, our dear little grand-daughters would always say, ‘Ma and Pa are going on a bewy big abenture’. We couldn’t call it anything else.
Very Big Adventures 