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  • The Original Adventure
    • Prior to Departure
      • Process of Elimination
      • Bad Byes and Bag Packing
    • Guyana
      • Overnight Arrival
      • G is for Georgetown
      • King Kaieteur and other Kicks
      • Breaking the Budget
    • Brazil
      • Jungly Juices and Belgian Bards
      • Amazonian Adventures
      • Things Would be Easier if I Just Spoke Portuguese
      • Don’t Feed the Coatis!
      • Fatality Conspiracies and Favela Reputations
      • The Curious Case of “Selfie Rage”
      • “I Fought a Bear”
      • Christmas Carols Are Out – Christmas Caipirinhas, On the Other Hand…
    • Bolivia
      • “A Day on a Bus” and other Assorted Tales
      • Hammocks, Hikes and Hidden Hostels
      • Mmmm…Cake….
      • A Real High Point
      • Back in the Saddle
      • Another Lagoon, Anyone?
      • Could I Do Any Less? The Answer is: Probably.
      • A Rookie Mistake (Or Two)
      • An Inca Island at Awful Altitude
    • Paraguay
      • A Revelation of Sorts
      • A Lesson on Paraguay
      • The Jesuit Rain
      • Welcome to the Supermarket of South America!
    • Uruguay
      • New Year Ghost Town
      • Horsing Around
      • An Awkward Time in a Hot Spring (Other Destinations Included!)
    • Argentina
      • You Know When You’ve Been Tango’d!
      • Three Long Buses and a Couple of Stops Inbetween
      • El Fin del Mundo
      • Patagonian Charms
      • I Had a Hair Cut!
      • A Spot of Table Tennis in an Unexpected Landscape
    • Chile
      • Fly! Fly Away Sweet Apple!
      • The Wrong Way Round
      • Not Everywhere Can Live Up to Expectations
      • Volcano Fever
      • Welcome to the Concrete Jungle
      • Lazing, Stargazing, and a Determined Effort to Find a Hand in the Desert
      • I Blame Brian Cox
    • Peru
      • Pissed in Peru
      • Choq Full of Ruins
      • The Cop Out
      • ‘Don’t Play With Your Food!’
      • Riding a Wave of History
      • A Ruinous Time
    • Ecuador
      • From Guayaquil to the Galapagos
      • Adventure on the Islands
      • Decision Time
    • Colombia
      • Coffee and Cocaine
      • Not the Authentic Traditional Way of Travelling
      • Getting to the End of a Grand Adventure – Part One
      • Getting to the End of a Grand Adventure – Part Two
    • Miscellaneous Travel Trivia
      • Bragging Rights – A Summary of Six Months
      • Eighteen Months On – A Belated Summary of a Year in South America
  • Teaching English in China
    • Planning a New Life
      • The Plan
      • A Terrible Step by Step Guide to Beginning a TEFL Career
      • Looking Forward to Fuzhou
      • Leaving China
    • In and Around Fuzhou
      • The Feeling that Something’s Going to Go Wrong
      • The Real Start to Teaching
      • Tales From the Middle Kingdom – Part One
      • Tales From the Middle Kingdom – Part Two
    • Out of the City
      • The School Trip
      • Walking in Wuyishan
      • Escape to the Tulou
  • Other Tall Tales
    • One Year in Devon
    • The Speediest of Microadventures
    • I Think I’ve Just Woken Up the Whole of Stockholm
    • Drawing Devon to a Close
    • Borneo Part One – Summer’s End & a Tribal Visit
    • Borneo Part Two – Orangutans, Not Orangutans & Other Jungle Creatures
    • Borneo Part Three – Beaches, Sickness & Maybe a Mountain
  • Where I’ve Been

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Welcome to Beyond the Old World!

The Original Adventure
 
The Original Adventure
Follow my original adventure here! From a rocky start in rarely travelled Guyana, through the heart of South America all the way to the southern tip. Oh, and back again.
Teaching English in China
 
Teaching English in China
Read about my (potentially) great adventure in moving to China! This trip's currently a work in progress.
Other Tall Tales
 
Other Tall Tales
Anything not encompassed by another grand escapade is here! Back in Britain or not, I'll have been doing something or other.
Where I've Been
 
Where I've Been
Want to check if I've written about somewhere in the world? Check out the map of places I've travelled.

G is for Georgetown

Monday 24th August 2015 – Georgetown is a city of many faces. On one hand, rumours abound of the constantly occurring crimes. Take, for instance, the Guyanese girl who was afraid I would get into the wrong sort of taxi. Or the owner of the guesthouse I stayed, who advised…

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Doug September 1, 2015 April 17, 2016Guyana, The Adventure August 2015, City Exploration, Danger, Paranoia, Taxi Drivers 2

Overnight Arrival

*CAUTION! THIS POST IS VERY LONG AND MAY CONTAIN SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF WAFFLE AND DRIVEL.* Thursday 20th August 2015 – “One small step for Doug, one giant leap for a kid who hasn’t left Europe before”. I proclaimed, echoing Neil Armstrong in a slightly long winded manner. I’d arrived in…

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Doug August 24, 2015 April 17, 2016Guyana, The Adventure Aeroplane, August 2015, City Exploration, Delayed Flight, Scared to Death, Taxi Drivers 0

Bad Byes and Bag Packing

Tuesday 18th August 2015 – I might never see it again. The house that is. Not due to any trip caused malaise or self caused misadventure, but because it is about to be sold. My family is moving across the country and it magically coincides with me being away. I’ll…

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Doug August 19, 2015 July 27, 2016Prior to Departure August 2015, Cats, Goodbye, Moving House, Packing, Procrastination, Scared to Death 1

Process of Elimination

Tuesday 04th August 2015 – It’s almost time. There are less than two weeks to go until I set off on a trip that I can only assume I will come back from. I mean, I can hope to, but I’m not going to get much of an option. My…

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Doug August 8, 2015 September 22, 2017Prior to Departure August 2015, Danger, Difficult Decisions, New World, Planning, Premature Demise, Sir Walter Raleigh 4
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About Doug

Here you will find the (hopefully) up to date adventures of the incredibly handsome pioneering explorer, Doug. As modest as he is wise, as awesome as he is brave, Doug will endeavor to recite the tales of his travels with utmost accuracy. No embellishment whatsoever.

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