Travel with Purpose. Travel at the Speed of Teja
When I decided to start writing a travel blog, I had a pretty clear idea why, and for what purpose. So after I wrote my blog article for MWSRP, I began Teja on the Horizon with some stories from travels that were fresh in mind, thoughts and poetry that were current, and wrote about sustainability.
But I quickly realised that, while I had entered a new phase in my life, I hadn’t really got to know the new me. I couldn’t seem to get comfortable writing about my recent travelling.
It was as though I had no context. My feet could not find solid ground. And I did not know to whom I was speaking. Or who as. So the stories seemed untethered, and couldn’t be written from my heart.
So I decided to reach back, back into the time when I began to travel again, after my divorce – my ‘Blue Period’. And I discovered that during those travels – not too noteworthy on the outside – I re-made myself.
In writing out those travel stories, I walked that path again, but this time with the reflections of hindsight.
And when my tales reached all the way back to my time in the Maldives, I found that I am now up to speed – with myself.
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These are the stories of personal growth through travel, during the Teja Blue Period.
My first visit to the exotic subcontinent of India did not begin in Delhi, nor in Rajasthan, nor anywhere along the well-trodden backpackers trail. It was in Sirsi, for the second volunteer expedition of...
The Perhentian Islands are a pair of islands off the northeast coast of Malaysia. Gazetted as a Marine Park, they are among the better known Malaysian islands for the beauty of its coastlines, and perhaps...
The draw of Taal Volcano in Luzon, the Philippines, for me was the islet in the caldera lake. Which was itself on an island, which is in a bigger lake, which was on an...
All right. So Derbyshire is lovely English countryside, with excellent rambles and curious things. But is there anything special about this region? If you’ve been following my Blue Period series, you will note that when I...
Teja and the Treasure Room of Chatsworth House Near the end of my Derbyshire trip, I went to visit the stately home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, Chatsworth House. In an earlier article...
I first stopped by Bakewell for lunch on one of the first days driving into the Peak District National Park in the English midlands. Thereafter I meant to change it up and stop at...
The Peak District: Technology in baffling places I was left to my own devices while my friend was cramming for her exam to become a grown-up doctor (I think that’s about right). After ticking the...
Chesterfield Canal The only reason I was looking for bluebells on this trip, was because it has ‘blue’ in the name. I avoided travel blogs at the time, because I never could seem to...
Like any other traveller, I have a bucket list. Not physically written down up until recently, but I’ve had it since I was a teenager. All the awesome places are there, places of outstanding...
Two Asian girls go bushwalking My friend and I did some cliffside bushwalking when we were in the Blue Mountains. Because you can’t go to the outdoors in Australia and not go bushwalking. So we looked up the...
The first country I chose to fly towards, when my wings dried, was Australia. There was no esoteric reason for this. I was turning away from a natural affinity to the UK. A friend and...
As part of my pretence of being a creative person, clearly it should come with a Blue Period of my own. Once, a long time ago when I was studying in Wales, I travelled on...
TEJA AT LARGE!
Upon arrival in India, I discovered the hard way that it was not so easy to get a data SIM card there, as a foreigner.
I was not exactly prepared...
Check out the story on Travelmag LOL
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www.travelmag.co.uk/2018/10/catch-22-means-no-local-sim-card-for-you-in-provincial-india/
Travelmag - 'Catch 22' means no local SIM card for you in provincial India - Travelmag
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Everyone told Teja that English was widely spoken in India, and getting a SIM card would be easy. But when he flies into Vara...Climb high enough, travel far enough to see the real world, understand that your personal issue is just 1% of all the issues, and you no longer want to demand. You begin to ask, how can I give.
Travel - but not to consume the destination.
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A special video today specifically for Indonesian fans of the Page! (And Malaysians, because we can basically understand the language)
A message to people harvesting lobster from the Ministry of Fisheries - "Leave alone the females laden with eggs, such as the ones I'm replacing into the habitat from our breeding program. When the eggs hatch, there will be more for the future, and we no longer have to re-stock the lobster like this."
#sustainablefisheries #sustainability #lestari #TidbitThursday
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Lobster bertelur menjadi incaran banyak orang untuk disantap. Tak sedikit yang menilai rasanya lebih nikmat dibanding yang tidak. Tapi tahukah kamu, jika satu lobster bertelur ditangkap, jutaan ekor lobster lainnya akan musnah. Padahal populasi lobster saat ini terus menurun akibat maraknya penyelundupan benih lobster dan lobster bertelur. Untuk mencegah terancamnya populasi lobster serta kepiting dan rajungan, diterbitkan Permen KP No. 56 Tahun 2016 mengenai larangan menangkap dan melalulintaskan Lobster, Kepiting dan Rajungan bertelur serta dilarang menangkap yang beratnya di bawah 200 gram untuk Lobster dan Kepiting, di bawah 60 gram untuk Rajungan.
Saat melepasliarkan lobster bertelur di Pulau Sahi, Natuna, Kepulauan Riau (26/8), Menteri Susi berpesan, "Biarkan lobster bertelur dan menetaskan telurnya untuk jutaan lobster yang akan datang". Jadi, jangan tangkap lobster bertelur ya Sahabat Bahari. Kamu tentu tidak mau anak cucumu nanti hanya bisa menikmati lobster dari gambar saja kan? 😊
#lobsterbertelur
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