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Overland 4WD truck parked at sunset in an open African landscape with rooftop tent

Overlanding the World — Our Setup, Vehicles and What We Learned

Overlanding looks effortless on Instagram and it is anything but. Here are the six things we wish someone had told us before we shipped a Hilux to Cape Town.

@craig·24 June 2026·11 min read·👁 11

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Hand writing in a travel journal on a wooden table with a coffee cup nearby

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Fun Things to Write About in a Travel Blog (When the Trip Itself Feels Done)

You went somewhere, you took the photos, you wrote the post. Now what? Here are 23 angles that travel-blog veterans keep going back to when the obvious "I did this" posts dry up.

@craig·3 May 2026·6 min read·👁 13

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Plate of escargots de Bourgogne in their shells with garlic-parsley butter and a French baguette

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What Countries Eat Snails? A Culinary Map of the World's Snail-Eaters

Snails are not a niche French eccentricity — they're an everyday street food across the Mediterranean and a delicacy in parts of Asia. Here is the world map of where to try them.

@craig·3 May 2026·7 min read·👁 122

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Kylie Phaup-Stephens's cargo-ship travel journal — CC La Tour crossing the Tasman Sea

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Travel Journal: Crossing the Tasman on a Cargo Ship

Kylie's first-person account of a cargo-ship crossing from Melbourne to Napier on the CMA CGM container ship CC La Tour. Five days, three meals, one captain who loved New Zealand, and the long red bloom of pohutukawas at the other end.

@craig·7 Dec 2010·10 min read·👁 10

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