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Aim High! (AKA Pulped Travel’s Guide to Great Views!)

In my last post, I wrote about, and included some pictures, of my climb to the top of Zadar’s highest building, the Bell Tower at the Cathedral of St Anastasia.  I gushed about how the ascent to the top of this fine bell tower afforded some fantastic views over the Old Town and across the sea to the islands that lie off Zadar.  Even before I started the…

Zadar – The Light and Sound City!

Zadar, the Croatian city located in northern Dalmatia; was a place that I knew very little about before I arrived in its industrial heartlands, but this was one I was keen to visit on my trip in the summer of 2013, around this beautiful Balkan country.  I really had no idea what to expect from Zadar, but something about the place was just brilliant!  Granted…Zadar is not the…

Why I Blog About Travel

After two years of blogging about travel, I have realised I am writing in an overcrowded part of the Internet.  Blogs about travel, independent travel, budget travel and backpacking are numerous.  Many of those writing have established their space on the web longer than Pulped Travel and have reached further around the globe than I can possibly hope to do at this current moment in time.  So, why…

Gallop into the Sunset on an Activity Holiday – A Guest Post by Mary

With this new guest post, I bring you horses, Iceland and yoga!  Guest poster Mary is a good friend of mine and passionate about travel.  She (and her husband) have often provided me with inspiration for destinations to visit and the list of places that she has been lucky enough to travel to makes me green with envy!  Jokes aside, Mary is a traveller on a mission; taking…

Bizarre Bumps!

Do you know that moment when you go shopping or to a bar in your home town and you bump into a member of your family or one of your friends?  It is a nice surprise, isn’t it!  Exaggerate that feeling a hundred times and add a ‘WOW’ moment; because that is what it is like when you meet those people on your journeys around the world.  Over…