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My Books
I have written and published three eBooks about my world adventures.
My eBooks are travel biographies of the observations and experiences of a totally blind and partially deaf man as he travels independently around the world having exciting adventures. The most recent volume, Seeing a Slice of Southern Africa My Way, published 31 December 2020, is a journey of continued self-discovery as I plot my way from multi-cultural South Africa with its complex society, to Malawi, with its picturesque and peaceful nature. This third book takes the reader through parts of Southern Africa, and offers a brief glimpse into a little of Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
News
Blog post / Costa Rica, country 111 (31st March 2016)
I’m now in Costa Rica, country 111. The last 10 or so days have been interesting and full of adventure. Upon leaving Santiago in central Panama I took a four hour bus trip to David, Panama´s second city, then a local bus for an hour’s ride into the beautiful fresh aired mountains. Destination Boquete. It’s a backpacking haunt within a smallish city lined with restaurants, bars, cafés and many hostels to cater for all. I was staying at Hostel Nomba, Read more →Country 111 (29th March 2016)
I’m now in Costa Rica, having crossed the land border from Panama on Saturday 26 March. This country 111.
Panama blog post (16th March 2016)
Second blog post from Tony’s trip around Central America – Panama.
Blog post / Panama (16th March 2016)
So, where did I leave you? Ah yes, Aruba. End of February and I sunny myself in the ABC Islands in the good old Caribbean! I spent three nights in hot sunny Aruba, the most touristy of the three islas. I stayed with an interesting and slightly crazy guy from Brazil, met him on the internet through CouchSurfing.com. On my first night with him, he took me to a music festival, which took place on the beach – Eagle Beach to be precise – on the island’s north-west side.
Read more →ABC Islands blog post (29th February 2016)
Tony has just sent this blog post – ABC Islands
Blog post / ABC Islands (29th February 2016)
I am currently in the Caribbean, travelling the ABC islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao. After one night in Amsterdam, Holland on 21st February 2016, I flew to Curacao, one of the islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and my trip began. An interesting historical island with friendly people. I stayed with a lovely German guy named Thomas via couch surfing and he helped me take a minibus into the main town and showed me to the historical and cultural museum,
Read more →Country 107 (24th February 2016)
Tony is now in Curacao, a small island in the southern Caribbean, sweating in the heat and soaking up the sun. This is country 107.
EDIT: photos added – https://www.tonythetraveller.com/photo-gallery/curacao-february-2016/
New blog post: Visiting the Gulf countries (25th November 2015)
Read it here.