by Routes Beyond Tim | Aug 11, 2023 | Close to Home, Memorable Days, North America, Opinion
The Day Our World Changed For over two decades, when meeting new people and the conversation turns to where do you live, it inevitably gets to 9/11. Here is my recollection of that day that changed the world. Life was going pretty well! We lived, still do, in a...
by Routes Beyond Tim | Aug 26, 2020 | Opinion
Fear is rife. Isolation is inWe Live In A More Connected and Yet More Divided World, Than Ever BeforeWith affordable global air travel, the internet and telecommunications, we are more connected than ever in the history of the world. Yet it seems that as residents of...
by Routes Beyond Tim | Apr 10, 2020 | Opinion
It Too Shall PassWhen this all ends, I would like to see these changes Polio, malaria, typhoid, ebola, the 1918 epidemic etc and now Covid19 are all products of poverty and/or poor education. We are learning too, that they disproportionately affect and are...
by Routes Beyond Tim | Mar 13, 2020 | Opinion
Cruising. Blocking The View?Sydney Harbor Bridge is behind the Ovation of the Seas. It is a huge vessel and of course cannot get under the Sydney Harbor Bridge to where cruise boats and others normally dock. Presumably the cruise line is paying a lot to moor in...
by Routes Beyond Tim | Feb 2, 2020 | Europe, Opinion
It is going to be a long path. On this Brexit Day…. My View has remained unchanged ever since the untimely and ill understood Referendum. Economic reviews have really not changed. Obviously. The United Kingdom (and there remains a risk to that name in the future...
by Routes Beyond Tim | Jul 2, 2019 | Africa, Memorable Days, Opinion
FollowFollow School DetailsStarted in late 2016 this school now has, as of January 2019, 297 children enrolled with 6 teachers (3 are volunteers). The school has 6 classrooms, teachers room, small Heads office, teacher toilet and a block of childrens toilets complete...
by Routes Beyond Tim | Jul 2, 2019 | Europe, Opinion, Summary
Gdansk Poland, waterfront Europe: Ancient and Modern Finland Finland By Train Hull Hull Stockholm Stockholm York York Ypres Ypres Berney Arms Berney Arms Berlin Berlin Leipzig Leipzig Dessau Dessau Dresden Dresden Isle...
by Routes Beyond Tim | Jul 2, 2019 | Asia, Opinion, Summary
Asia Searching for..... Routes Beyond The Challenges Facing Asia Shimla Shimla Mumbai Mumbai Bandung Jakarta to Bandung Seoul Seoul & DMZ Mount Sinai Melbourne Melbourne Japan Japan By Rail Asia Posts“Weather about to get better – it’s going to rain”...
by Routes Beyond Tim | Mar 18, 2019 | Asia, Opinion
Darkening Skies? There is a lot of talk about Climate Change, Nationalism and Isolation in last few weeks. Well, here are my observations of 4 days this past week, (brought about by a convoluted set of meetings:- Roar of the engines, nose up, clunk of wheels...
by Routes Beyond Tim | Mar 1, 2019 | Opinion
Overtourism Or simple overcrowding of popular sights is a worrying trend. It is partially caused by the wonderful affordability of travel to more, but also the concentration on a few ‘mega places’ that social media has popularized. Think Machu Picchu, the terminal...
by Routes Beyond Tim | Oct 25, 2018 | Africa, Opinion
So this looks like just the country that is recovering from Ebola, mudslides that killed thousands, a 12 year civil war and is in the bottom few of any measure, financial or quality of life, of any country? Hope In A Small African Country War, famine, corruption,...
by Routes Beyond Tim | Jul 21, 2017 | Opinion
We Live In A More Connected and Yet More Divided World, Than Ever Before Above – ‘We are all going to the same place”. Right – “Passing By” “With affordable global air travel, the internet and telecommunications.. …we...
by Routes Beyond Tim | Jul 20, 2017 | Opinion
Overtourism I'd just spent 18 hours climbing Mount Washington, seen almost nobody. Then you get to the top and it is packed! Hot Spots Having climbed for about 14 hours and seen virtually no one, it seems odd to victoriously crest the summit of Mount Washington, New...
by Routes Beyond Tim | Jul 18, 2017 | Opinion
Going to Routes Beyond because of Overtourism! Overtourism Travel, and hence interaction between different peoples is surely, overwhelmingly, a good thing from many viewpoints, particularly in avoidance of conflict due to knowledge and affinity. Had mass tourism been...
by Routes Beyond Tim | Jun 30, 2016 | Opinion
In My Opinion This is an archive of posts and reviews on various topics. Opinion Posts MenuWhen This All Ends….. On This Brexit Day Building a School in Sierra Leone Overtourism A Global, Common Theme, Witnessed First Hand Hope in a Small African Country Cruising. In...
