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JRNY podcast recording

By Ian M Packham December 17, 2021 December 17, 2021 Adventure, Africa, Banana Island, Latest

Take a behind-the-scenes journey through my piece on Sierra Leone’s Banana Islands with the accompanying podcast episode (23 min)! Continue reading

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The Pursuit Zone Podcast Interview

By Ian M Packham May 13, 2019 August 30, 2020 Adventure, Bangladesh, Latest

Take a listen to my latest interview with Paul Schmid of the Pursuit Zone podcast for the first insights into my 660 mile / 1,000 kilometre trek across Bangladesh. Having finished the journey roughly a month ago, this was my first chance to really look back over what was by… Continue reading

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A new adventure begins

By Ian M Packham January 3, 2019 September 1, 2020 Adventure, Bangladesh, Latest, Walking

After a short delay of a month I’m now all set to begin my next adventure, walking the length of Bangladesh. I’ve completed some week-long walks along Hadrian’s Wall and around the Isle of Man in the past, but this is going to be a huge challenge both physically and… Continue reading

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Then, and now

By Ian M Packham July 5, 2018 March 2, 2021 Adventure, Africa, Algeria, Behind the lines, Europe, history, Italy, Latest, Trains, Tunisia

The past weeks (and actually, months) have raced by like the pages of a flipbook. Taking my freelance status to heart, it means I’ve had my fingers in a variety of different pies, and have been able to explore a little of the Balkans – a part of Europe missing… Continue reading

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The war ends, the journey doesn’t

By Ian M Packham September 22, 2017 July 6, 2023 Adventure, Austria, Behind the lines, border, Italy, Latest

Reaching the far north of Italy should be the end of my current journey. Fighting in Italy came to an end on 2nd May 1945, a week before the war in Europe finally ended on 8th May. My great uncle celebrated Victory in Europe Day with his Royal Engineer unit… Continue reading

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The Cotton Tree

By Ian M Packham March 10, 2017 March 3, 2021 Adventure, Africa, Banana Island, Latest, Trains

The cotton tree (nothing to do with cotton I don’t think but it is at least a tree) seems to like the sort of sandy ground that exists between Sierra Leone’s beaches and its loamy earth and on its busy city centre roundabouts. The cotton tree in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s… Continue reading

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A long-awaited return to Tunisia

By Ian M Packham October 28, 2016 March 3, 2021 Adventure, Africa, Algeria, Behind the lines, Latest, Tunisia

As I headed for the Algeria-Tunisia frontier my path began to diverge from that of my great uncle more than the 75 years that separated our two journeys. A number of reasons for this existed, some more prosaic than others, for the most part coming down to the practicalities of… Continue reading

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Behind the lines in Algeria

By Ian M Packham October 5, 2016 March 3, 2021 Adventure, Africa, Algeria, Behind the lines, Latest

I would imagine my great uncle had mixed feelings over leaving Algeria for Tunisia to the east, in an ‘out of the frying pan and into the fire’ sort of a way, even if his last recorded whereabouts in the country was in a small town called Duvivier (modern-day Bouchegouf)… Continue reading

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Behind the lines

By Ian M Packham September 16, 2016 March 3, 2021 Adventure, Africa, Algeria, Latest, Trains, Tunisia

Leaving a place I’ve come to know and call home always fills me with feelings of anxiety. Yet, in leaving my rented flat in Cambridge after three years I am doing precisely that, and leaving behind another small group of good friends. Standing on the gravel outside the flat’s patio… Continue reading

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Message in a bottle

By Ian M Packham July 14, 2016 March 9, 2021 Adventure, Latest, UK, Walking

A few months ago when I was walking from the barren northernmost point of the Isle of Man at the Point of Ayre back towards some sort of civilisation along the lonely cold beaches, with only unrecognised seabirds and the very real risk of rock falls to keep me company… Continue reading

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JRNY podcast recording

The Pursuit Zone Podcast Interview

A new adventure begins

Then, and now

The war ends, the journey doesn’t

The Cotton Tree

A long-awaited return to Tunisia

Behind the lines in Algeria

Behind the lines

Message in a bottle

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