New Year, New Adventures...
While I've been away in Asia and down south in The Big Smoke, Nicky's been holding the fort back in frosty Keswick, grabbing early morning walks by the river with the labs, before spending most of the days at Millican HQ, "The Shed".
View from "The Shed"
And she's been kept busy, but at Millican, we've always got one eye fixed on the great outdoors and this year Nicky has got a plan.
I'll let her take it from here..
"Over the years I've come to realise that New Year's resolutions are dangerous territory - very easy to create a long list of them, but almost impossible to make them all happen.
So this year I've started with just one. More adventure is needed. My yearning for adventure has stirred and so I'm poring over books and maps to decide which direction to take.
Overland is the key to the trip, inspired by my current bedside read, "A Fortune Teller Told Me - Earthbound travels in the Far East", by Tiziano Terzani.
Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for an entire year, Italian born Tiziano Terzani, a vastly experienced Asia correspondent, took what he called “the first step into an unknown world".
Traveling by foot, boat, bus, car, and train, he visited Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Mongolia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Geography expanded under his feet.
For me, the following words by Tiziano clinched the deal for the train:
"Covering great distances by train and boat restored my sense of the earth's immensity...the train journey re-animates an atrophied curiosity about details."
"On trains, you share your days, your meals and your boredom with people you would otherwise never meet, and some of them remain unforgettable. Reading a guidebook while hopping from one airport to another is not the same as the slow, laborious absorption - as if by osmosis - of the humours of the earth to which one remains bound when travelling by train".
Granada, Seville and Luca are just a few of the destinations on the "maybe" list pinned on the board in our kitchen.
Alhambra, Granada courtesy of Rata Fernandez
The beauty of travel is not only the experience of travelling itself, but also the preparation and the dreaming about the journey ahead. I can't wait ...
What adventures have you got planned for the year ahead?
Feel free to add your own, the pages of the moleskine diary are clean and empty and there's a whole year to fill ..."
View from "The Shed"And she's been kept busy, but at Millican, we've always got one eye fixed on the great outdoors and this year Nicky has got a plan.
I'll let her take it from here..
"Over the years I've come to realise that New Year's resolutions are dangerous territory - very easy to create a long list of them, but almost impossible to make them all happen.
So this year I've started with just one. More adventure is needed. My yearning for adventure has stirred and so I'm poring over books and maps to decide which direction to take.
Overland is the key to the trip, inspired by my current bedside read, "A Fortune Teller Told Me - Earthbound travels in the Far East", by Tiziano Terzani.
Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for an entire year, Italian born Tiziano Terzani, a vastly experienced Asia correspondent, took what he called “the first step into an unknown world".
Traveling by foot, boat, bus, car, and train, he visited Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Mongolia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Geography expanded under his feet.
For me, the following words by Tiziano clinched the deal for the train:
"Covering great distances by train and boat restored my sense of the earth's immensity...the train journey re-animates an atrophied curiosity about details."
"On trains, you share your days, your meals and your boredom with people you would otherwise never meet, and some of them remain unforgettable. Reading a guidebook while hopping from one airport to another is not the same as the slow, laborious absorption - as if by osmosis - of the humours of the earth to which one remains bound when travelling by train".
Granada, Seville and Luca are just a few of the destinations on the "maybe" list pinned on the board in our kitchen.
Alhambra, Granada courtesy of Rata FernandezThe beauty of travel is not only the experience of travelling itself, but also the preparation and the dreaming about the journey ahead. I can't wait ...
What adventures have you got planned for the year ahead?
Feel free to add your own, the pages of the moleskine diary are clean and empty and there's a whole year to fill ..."
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