“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”
So said George Bernard Shaw and I concur exactly.
I was re-christened Wilbur at the age of 13 by schoolmates and it has stuck to become my travel related non du plume, not least because this is what my regular travel buddy Hamish (another schoolboy nickname that refused to go away) knows me as.
Over ninety countries visited thus far, but there is so much more to do on my bucket list that I feel I have barely scratched the surface.
My travel highlight is a 2009 trip by train from Istanbul to wonderful Syria. At last I hope there is a brighter future for the long-suffering Syrians. Read about my trip by searching Syria on my homepage.
Passionate about rail as a means of exploration, top of my list is to do the trans-Siberian Express. Postponed five times due to Covid and the conflict, going would mean peace in Ukraine so it would be special indeed.
I love to travel, enjoy the thrill of exposing myself to unusual situations and am fascinated by cultures that differ from my own.
This blog will be a retro look at past trips, real time reports from current ones and dreams about future ones.
Happy wandering.
Wilbur
Like James that header photo intrigues me. How on earth did they get those spices so perfect? 60 countries? I have wanderlust envy for sure. 🙂
Sue, It intrigued me also, especially when they told me that they ‘re-build’ 3-4 times a week!
Nearly sixty countries maybe, but it still feels as though I have barely started!
Fantastic masthead photo Wilbur! I’m sure it must have been taken in a souk somewhere, but where was it? ~James
It was in Marrakech in 2006. It wasn’t in the souk but not far from it. The partially obscured lady in the blue top was Mrs Wilbur buying saffron!
Morocco is just about the closest place you can travel from UK to be in another world!
Wilbur
Hello Wilbur! I’ve decided to read and follow 15 interesting and new blogs a day every day for the first month of 2015, and yours is today’s #8! Feel free to come visit me when you can at http://www.thatssojacob.wordpress.com, and follow if you like what you read. Happy new year and happy blogging!