Life and Travels by Liz Murray
Oman … Ohhhh-man, I love this place.
Oman – the land of Sultans and Sinbad, frankincense and peace … so far, it’s been spared the militant Islamic violence that has plagued many of its neighbours, and once out of the…
Nepal Trek
Just because you’re not actually stepping foot on Mt Everest… Reaching Base Camp and standing at an altitude of 5,364 metres (17.599 feet) above sea level is euphoric, even with severely depleted energy…
Life On The Edge – The Simien Mountains, Ethiopia
Few people know about the Simien, let alone travel there, and while the snows of Mt Kilimanjaro may be the true ‘roof of Africa’, the Simien Mountains are certainly a worthy challenger. Yes,…
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Morocco Revisited… The Undiscovered Atlas
When I head off on one of my solo ‘shut-off from work’ holidays away from the station after a tourist season of hard work, you can forget lazing around on a beach, reading…
Memoirs From Morocco
My daughter Alex and I were mesmerized by pretty much everything in Morocco …. It is incredibly diverse in almost every sense of the word: geographically, ethnically, racially, linguistically and culturally… a real…
Climbing a Mountain
From Senega, West Africa, I flew to Tanzania, my first aim being to summit Mt Kilimanjaro – the highest free-standing mountain in the world at 19,342 feet (4,956 meters)… and I’ll start with…
Out Of Africa – Senegal, West Africa
It was at an Outback Tourism conference in Lightning Ridge, of all places, that I met two West African brothers and musicians, now living and working in Australia, and my mind immediately began…
Trucking Lambs
Come Spring each year and it’s time to sell last years whether lambs. What’s a whether you ask? A whether lamb is a castrated male lamb. (and for future reference a ewe is…
Doing Kokoda
I guess you could consider this the beginning of my ‘mid life crisis’, I’m sure that’s how my conservative 5th and 6th generation farming neighbours and family looked at it. I didn’t’ and…