Horizon Chasing
Thanks for dropping by. This is Sam Watson’s blog – sometimes writer for various magazines, traveller, writer, geographer, conservationist and itinerant scruff. Insta – samwatson4994 / X – SamWatson__ / Fb – Sam Watson
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Thoughts on languages as a traveller
Learning languages to help communication when traveling overland is a multi-sided issue. On the one hand it opens doors and makes friends if you can chat to someone with even a few words of their own language, on the other hand it can get you into trouble fast, and then leave you high and dry…
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Back to Nepal
Regular visitors will know I’m a great lover of Nepal, and this last month I was able to finally return to that beautiful mountain land after the hiatus of Covid. I flew into Kathmandu with the intention of visiting the eastern border region where Nepal and India meet, and specifically the small village of Manebhanjhyang.…
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Shepheard’s Hotel – more details
As many will know, I have long had a fascination with the original Shepheard’s Hotel in Cairo. I returned from Egypt recently and have been able to string together some more findings about the place, burned down in 1952 but living still in the stories and legends of the Desert War. It is perforce limited…
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Dusty in Egypt – Dec ’21
Five years ago when I lived in Cairo I was part of a group of friends jokingly called the Sand Rovers. We all had Defenders, we all travelled into the Sahara most weekends and we otherwise all met up at a small workshop we rented to kick tyres, drink beer and talk nonsense. Our Land…
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Malta!
So sorry all – I’ve been very remiss again about keeping up to date here In the summer I was able to navigate the reefs and currents of idiotic bureaucracy during COVID and get to Malta, to meet up with some Land Rover-owning friends there and do some exploring. The rugged Fortress Island of Malta…
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A return to Zimbabwe
As the world slowly rallies to deal with the idiocy of Coronavirus, it has become possible to travel once again. My first trip for several pandemic months happened in April, with a return to the beautiful land of Zimbabwe. As readers may know, I have a Series One Land Rover in Zimbabwe, a 1956 107″…
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