Tag Archives: backpacking
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REBLOG: Expediciòn Acatenango: The Ring of Fire
3Wednesday 21 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on The Adventure Born:
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Achievement (I)
13Friday 14 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is from 1987, and the time that a good friend of mine …
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Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright…
10Tuesday 22 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Time for another “Tunes I Love” Groningen, The Netherlands… that’s where my love of Tangerine Dream started, back in the …
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REBLOG: India – An Experience
1Monday 07 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
As a lover of travel in India, it is hard sometimes to describe the sights and sounds to others, particularly …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Move (IV)
3Monday 12 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a Spikey Special…. camel trekking of course, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Move (III)
5Sunday 11 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is from a village in Western Tanzania – me thinks there was …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Move (II)
2Saturday 10 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is of a cheeky chappie in his hand made raft/canoe on Lake …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beginning (IV)
5Monday 06 January, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Clan Spike’s fourth entry for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is from the beginning of our Greek adventure this past …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beginning (II)
16Saturday 04 January, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Clan Spike’s second entry for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is from the very first day I set out on …
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Winter Solstice Sun
6Tuesday 24 December, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Northern Hemisphere, 21st December, Winter Solstice… so the shortest day of the year, and our ‘mid-winter’. We tend to have …
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Varanasi – A Sacred Moment
42Sunday 22 December, 2013 by Uncle Spike
India. Ever been there? It’s one of the most fascinating spots on the planet, for me at least. Often described …
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Deep Inside Pyramids Are Scary Places
38Friday 20 December, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Ok, hands up who has been into space? No, me neither, but I have done some daft things in my …
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Crowded Turkish Beaches… In Winter
29Wednesday 18 December, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Yeah right… In the summer, say from June to September, the beaches here on the Turkish Riviera attract all sorts …
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Greek Islands & White Paint
4Sunday 15 December, 2013 by Uncle Spike
There are some views from this planet that really don’t warrant any form of introduction or explanatory note. You know, …
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Girls, Guns & Jerusalem
12Saturday 14 December, 2013 by Uncle Spike
I was in Israel in December 1987, literally having arrived a couple of days after the First Intifada, the uprising …
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Dar es Salaam
9Saturday 07 December, 2013 by Uncle Spike
A few places in the world really stand out in one’s memory. Sometimes it’s just the name of a place …
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Being an Arse (Assistant Rafting Support Employee)
11Saturday 30 November, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Ever heard of the Franz Josef Glacier? I certainly hadn’t, well not before I stumbled across it on my travels …
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Indian Trains – Sleepies and Scoffing
27Sunday 24 November, 2013 by Uncle Spike
In the first post Indian Trains –Timetables & Travellers, we came across the timetables, the tickets, the noise, the people …
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Anyone For Tea?
20Friday 22 November, 2013 by Uncle Spike
. This little tea house or sort of restuarant is a wonderful stop off point during road trips around these …
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Indian Trains –Timetables & Travellers
34Saturday 16 November, 2013 by Uncle Spike
There is something about the railways that is an absolute must when travelling in India. Criss-crossing almost the entire sub-continent, …
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SPIKE WRITES: Many Thanks “Hitchhikers Handbook”
9Wednesday 23 October, 2013 by Uncle Spike
If you love discovering great travel blogs, then you ought to check out the Hitchhikers Handbook. It’s full of great …
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I Wanna Be A Bird When I Grow Up
10Sunday 20 October, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Hate flying or love it? That’s about it really, isn’t it; there’s no in-between for most people. Well me, I …
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Not Arrested After All…
9Saturday 19 October, 2013 by Uncle Spike
I really wanted to get arrested once. Seriously, I thought it would be a bit of a laugh. Ok, so …
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A Bit Of Dutch Hospitality
10Tuesday 08 October, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Sometime around 10pm on a dark rainy autumn evening in 1987, I arrived in the small town of Hoofddorp, just …
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Humbled Uncle Spike
2Wednesday 02 October, 2013 by Uncle Spike
202 Followers ! I’m so humbled… Just checked my Stats page and realised that Uncle Spikes Adventures now has 202 …
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Baby Spike to Uncle Spike
10Wednesday 25 September, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Even Uncle Spike was a kid once… Check out my wheels; my first adventure! (…yes, that really is me…) . …
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Quite A Neat Little Number!
Leave a commentTuesday 24 September, 2013 by Uncle Spike
No, sorry, you can’t have the cash, but you can have my gratitude!
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Me And My Two Wheeled Taxicab
7Tuesday 17 September, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Who says taxis should have 4 wheels? Mine didn’t… New Zealand; that beautiful collection of islands of the southern hemisphere, …
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Uncle Spike says “Yay!”
Leave a commentMonday 09 September, 2013 by Uncle Spike
. T H A N K Y O U ! In just the past 12 days, you guys have …
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My 1987 Greek Island Adventure
12Saturday 31 August, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Twenty-five or so years ago I was ‘on the road’. Now that narrative could be applied to several lifestyle alternatives; …
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Palestine, Bananas & Guns
Leave a commentFriday 30 August, 2013 by Uncle Spike
A new travel story from Uncle Spike is on it’s way for tomorrow (promise). But in the meantime… Got a …
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Gracias! ~ Thanks! ~ Asante!
1Wednesday 28 August, 2013 by Uncle Spike
** 2000 Hits ** So not such a huge number for many blogs… But a milestone for Uncle Spike. Many …
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A Guide To Tactical Hitchhiking
4Tuesday 20 August, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Wanderlust was my watchword, and very much part and parcel of who I was in the mid-late 1980’s. As do …
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Milestone ~ Spike Didn’t Just Spike!
5Sunday 18 August, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Well, well… who would have guessed? Two months ago I started this blog in earnest, and today I am pretty …
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Dodecanese Days
4Tuesday 13 August, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Currently exploring a few of the Greek Dodecanese islands, and seem to be accumulating more blog story fodder along the …
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The Gambling Man
13Friday 02 August, 2013 by Uncle Spike
During my years in that wasteland otherwise known as an extended adolescence, I was known on occasion to partake in …
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The Arrival, Indian Style
12Saturday 13 July, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Ever been to India? Well, for me, the Indian Subcontinent holds a very special place in my heart for a …
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