Hotels – The Worst One & Some Good Ones in 2009
15 December 2009 | Living
The worst hotel of the year? McAlpine House in Broome, Western Australia. In 2009 I stayed in about 70 different hotels in 16 countries. Many of them were strictly one night stands although there were a fair number of two or three nighters, the longest visit was six n...
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Alaska Blog 7 – The Kenai Peninsula
6 August 2009 | Places
I’m in Alaska travelling with an LPTV film crew making a program for the forthcoming Roads Less Travelled series with National Geographic. I’ve been east and north-west from Anchorage, now I’m heading directly west to the Kenai Peninsula to try clam digging, sailing a...
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Alaska Blog 6 – Nome
2 August 2009 | Places
I’m in Alaska travelling with an LPTV film crew making a program for the forthcoming Roads Less Travelled series with National Geographic. I’ve been east of Anchorage across Prince William Sound to McCarthy-Kennecott and the Wrangell-St Elias National Park, now I’m he...
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Alaska Blog 5 – Kennecott & McCarthy
27 July 2009 | Places
I’m in Alaska travelling with an LPTV film crew making a program for the forthcoming Roads Less Travelled series with National Geographic. After starting out in Anchorage I’ve been by train to Whittier, crossed Prince William Sound and taken the McCarthy Road up to th...
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Alaska Blog 2 – Train to Whittier
21 July 2009 | Places
I’m in Alaska travelling with an LPTV film crew making a program for the forthcoming Roads Less Travelled series with National Geographic. I’ve already posted a ‘getting to Alaska’ blog.
The train route along Cook Inlet.
From Anchorage, the state capital, we ...
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