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Kashgar Sunday Market

In Travel, China by tony5 Comments

Featured image: Cart Parking, Kashgar Sunday Market 1995    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  4 November 2018 Kashgar Sunday Market 1995 Preamble I’d always wanted to ascend the Karakorum Highway (KKH) to Hunza and to China ever since I’d first heard of the KKH from books, and in relation to the Great Game and Sir Francis Younghusband. I’ve only touched …

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Pattale to Pikey Peak, Solukhumbu, lower Everest

In Travel, Nepal by tony1 Comment

Featured image: Dorje Points to Everest near Teahouse above Pattale    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  1 October 2018 (Other posts on Nepal and Nepal trekking on this site are: Boudhanath Stupa, Everest Trekking 1, Everest Trekking 2, Muktinath to ABC Trek, Annapurna Sanctuary Trek and Pattale to Juke Trek.) Pattale to Pikey Peak Trek 2 Pattale to Pikey Peak, Junbessi, Taksinda La & Paphlu, November 2017 …

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Pattale to Juke, Solukhumbu, lower Everest

In Travel, Nepal by tony4 Comments

Featured image: Everest and Spectacular Himalaya Range from Pattale, 2017    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  3 September 2018 (Other posts on Nepal and Nepal trekking on this site are: Boudhanath Stupa, Everest Trekking 1, Everest Trekking 2, Muktinath to ABC Trek, Annapurna Sanctuary Trek and Pattale to Pikey Peak Trek.) Trek 1 Pattale to Juke, Solukhumbu District, lower Everest region, Nepal Pattale to Juke: There & …

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ABC Annapurna Sanctuary Trek Nepal

In Travel, Nepal by tony3 Comments

Featured Image: Awesome Annapurna South on the ABC Annapurna Sanctuary Trek Nepal    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  11 April 2018 (Other posts on Nepal and Nepal trekking on this site are: Boudhanath Stupa, Everest Trekking 1, Everest Trekking 2, Muktinath to ABC Trek, Pattale to Juke Trek and Pattale to Pikey Peak Trek.) Return to ABC Trek Nepal, November 2017 The basics In Pokhara the tour agents advertise …

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Muktinath to ABC Nepal

In Travel, Nepal by tony3 Comments

Featured Image: Heavily modified panorama of Machhapuchhre or Fishtail from above MBC towards ABC.    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  6 March 2018 Muktinath to ABC (Annapurna Base Camp) trekking in Nepal, 2004 (Other posts on Nepal and Nepal trekking on this site are: Boudhanath Stupa,  Everest Trekking 1, Everest Trekking 2,  Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Pattale to Juke Trek,and Pattale to Pikey Peak Trek.) Introduction We went …

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Postcard from Lake Tabourie, Australia

In Australia, Travel by tony6 Comments

Featured image: Crampton Island at Twilight    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  16 January 2018 My postcard series is idiosyncratic. The postcards are short descriptions of travel and places, but there is no theme or rhyme or reason. They are short snippets about things that you might not have heard about or experienced otherwise. The series so far are: 1 Boudhanath …

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19 Best Travel Blogs & Websites

In Travel by tony6 Comments

Featured image: Sadhu and God, Pushkar, 1995    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  2 July 2017 19 Best Travel Blogs & Websites & Why The true reason I chose to write about travel blogs was that I was embarrassed about my links page. I’d neglected it since shortly after setting up my blog. I thought that writing articles about the relevant …

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Food in Chiang Mai 6: 2017 Update

In Food, Travel, Thailand by tony1 Comment

Featured update image: Mueang Mai Wholesale Market, March 2017    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  4 May 2017 Articles in the series on food and restaurants in Chiang Mai are: 1 Akha Tribal Food, 2 Pho Vieng Chane, 3 Khao Soy, 4 French & Italian Restaurants, 5 Airport Plaza, 6 Update 2017, 7 Update 2023, 8 Street Food. Another article is …

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Morocco Accommodation

In Travel, Morocco by tony3 Comments

Morocco featured image: Modern Table, Fes Tile Factory    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  17 March 2017 Morocco Accommodation Variety AirBNB & Other, October 2016 Introduction In planning our trip we used personal recommendations from friends who had been to Morocco twice and an acquaintance we stayed with in far Western NSW who all loved Morocco, and also from some well travelled …

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Everest Region Trekking 2

In Travel, Nepal by tonyLeave a Comment

Featured Image: Just another mountain (outside lodge gate, Dingboche)    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  1 December 2016 Trekking in the Everest Region in Spring 2013: Phortse to Lukla via Dingboche (Other posts on Nepal and Nepal trekking on this site are: Boudhanath Stupa,  Everest Trekking 1, Muktinath to ABC Trek, Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Pattale to Juke Trek,and Pattale to Pikey Peak Trek.) April 16 to Macchermo …

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Everest Region Trekking 1

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Featured Image: What it is all about! (near Machhermo)    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  14 November 2016 Trekking in the Everest Region in Spring 2013: Lukla to Gokyo (Other posts on Nepal and Nepal trekking on this site are: Boudhanath Stupa, Everest Trekking 2, Muktinath to ABC Trek, Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Pattale to Juke Trek,and Pattale to Pikey Peak Trek.) Preamble Reading my Postcard from …

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Bosch 500th Centenary Exhibition, The Prado 2016

In Travel, Art, Spain by tonyLeave a Comment

   Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  4 November 2016  The two 500th year Bosch Exhibitions in the Netherlands and Spain Hieronymus Bosch: Visions of Genius, Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands from 13 February to 8 May 2016. Bosch: The 5th Centenary Exhibition, Museo del Prado, Madrid from 31 May to 11 September 2016. Introduction, controversy and a little spite We’ve got to take …

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Dog Story

In Travel, The rest, UK by tony4 Comments

Featured image: Jack, Dukie and Denise    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  20 September 2016 Doggie Tails Original title, which I much prefer. House-sitting, Buckinghamshire, UK Setting The Chiltern Hills form a chalk escarpment in South East England. We were house-sitters in two locations here in Buckinghamshire during the summer of 2014. The first place we spent one week, had a …

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AirBNB Adventures 1: Italy & Sicily 2012

In Travel, Italy by tony2 Comments

Featured image: View of Ortygia Island, the historical centre of Syracuse, Sicily    Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  25 May 2016 AirBNB Adventure 1: Florence to Syracuse, Italy & Sicily 2012 Introduction In thinking about this series, I decided to contact all my previous AirBNB hosts to ask whether they were still active and wanted to be identified specifically or …