Voyage Of The Odd Essay

Over the course of the last week, three different people have mentioned music festivals around Europe they’ve been too, all of which make for great ideas to add to my list of must see destinations. After all, I love music festivals and spend my summers at various festivals in the UK either with a group of friends, or on occasion on my own just mixing with the crowd.

The idea of getting out to various festivals abroad is something I’ve been playing with for a while, so it fits neatly in with my long term travel plans.  So my map has been updated to reflect the new destinations. (more…)

Yesterday, I might have made light of the fact half of the Middle East and Africa is torn up by war, and when you’re just looking at a map and crossing of places you can’t travel it’s quiet easy to gloss over that fact, but actually it’s pretty depressing in a way and the countries that are off limits have some amazing sights that would be amazing to see.

Still, I can’t do anything about war zones, but the other problem - not been able to drive though Russia at more then 43 miles per hour, I have a solution for.
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Since I’ve started thinking about driving around the world, I’ve been spending a fair bit of time poking around at Google Maps toying with ideas about where to visit. The first thing that is immediately apparent is that visiting everywhere I’d like to isn’t practical in a single trip, for two differing reasons: Water and War.
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