TravelWriterLife

Travel stories and adventures.

  • The House of Blakiston

    I come from Geraldine. Someone had to. My hometown, Geraldine, on New Zealand’s South Island, doesn’t have any notable citizens. We can’t lay claim to being the birthplace of a great politician, or an eminent scientist, or even some famous deviant, serial killer or chef. The closest thing Geraldine has to a celebrity is Jordan […]

    FERG

    October 27, 2018
    Autobiography, Travel, Travel Writing
    Adventure, Autobiography, Travel, Travel Writing, Writing
  • Maps

    Maps are fascinating. Their intricate detail and their arcane symbols always seem to whisper “come and find out.”   

    FERG

    October 27, 2018
    Autobiography, Travel, Travel Writing
    Adventure, Adventures, Travel, Travel Writing
  • The City of Light

    “I dig my toes into the sand; The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds, strewn across a blue blanket…”                                  – Incubus, Wish You Were Here Dawn on Tahunanui Back Beach. At this hour, the beach is empty: a strand of grey sand adorned with a tide-wrack of driftwood. Off to the west, the heaped blue […]

    FERG

    October 26, 2018
    Travel, Travel Writing
    Adventures, Travel, Travel Writing, Writing
  • Time in the Flinders Ranges

    Here endless trickles count what comes to be and grain by grain the runnels decimate Eternity.                                                            – Colin Thiele, Centralian Sandhill   North of Burra, the […]

    FERG

    October 23, 2018
    Travel, Travel Writing
    Adventure, Adventures, Australia, South Australia, Travel, Travel Writing
  • Prologue

    “The earthquake struck at two minutes and fifty-six seconds past midnight. Deep underground, the ancient rocks of Zealandia ruptured. With a gigantic, tectonic shudder, the edges of two continental plates slipped sideways. The Earth roared. Coastlines leapt. Hillsides collapsed. As the shockwaves propagated outwards, away from the initial rupture, the ground opened. Straight lines suddenly […]

    FERG

    October 22, 2018
    Travel, Travel Writing
    Adventures, Travel, Travel Writing, Writing
  • Welcome to TravelWriterLife

      Hello, and welcome to my blog: TravelWriterLife. For the next six years my other blog, CurseOfTheTraveller, will be dedicated to daily posts of entries from my travel diaries written between September 1988 and June 1994. With that in mind, I decided to launch another blog where my travel stories, photography and other bits could […]

    FERG

    October 21, 2018
    Travel, Travel Writing
    Adventure, Adventures, Travel, Travel Writing, Writing
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