Articles tagged with: traveling
For some, traveling is as simple as throwing a t-shirt and a tooth brush into a backpack and locking the door behind them. For others, months of meticulous planning takes place locating and purchasing the perfect bikini, travel bag and accessories for their trip. If you fall into the second category you might (like me) also be a serious hoarder of utterly useless gadgets intelligent travel inventions which make your life on the road easier, …
*Sigh*. The Andaman Coast along the province of Krabi, Thailand… full of beautiful sandy beaches, warm calm turquoise waters, heat-stroke inducing sun, tropical landscapes and most magnificently, the incredible limestone geology that results in high and sporadic rugged yellowed cliffs leaping out of the ground!
What a place!
I’ve always carried fond memories of the Krabi province from my initial visit three years ago as it was the area that really got …
For the last three months the Dutch capital city of Amsterdam has been my home. During this time I’ve mastered the cycling lanes, navigated my way around the canals and developed quite a taste for Bitterballen. The best part about living here has enabled me to explore and experience one of my favourite European cities like a local. I’d now like to share my top tips with you so that …
So, I heard the other day that the Aussie dollar crashed a little bit, which will mean that the big land down under’s prices may start to seem less steep to us foreigners who so love to visit one of the world’s greatest countries. However, it’s still not cheap over there by any stretch of the imagination, particularly in the big cities.
At the beginning of this year I stayed in …
Travel has been one of my most valuable teachers. Rather than sit in a classroom and learn about the world through a someone else’s eyes, I did it through adventures and misadventures, tears and laughter. I know I still have so much to discover, but here are some lessons that sometimes I had to learn the hard way. Some of them I already kinda knew, some I are silly, some …
Kanchanaburi is a 2 hour bus trip out of Bangkok and oh, what a difference 2 hours can make. Gone are the garish lights and hustle of Bangkok as city skyline gives way to the natural world. Why am I here? I’m going on a tiger hunt. Where am I going? To the famous Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, otherwise known as The Tiger Temple.
Fittingly, the landscape of this breath-of-fresh …
Attention! Diamond jubilee fever is officially over after reaching its ultimate peak with the Queen’s birthday yesterday. Stores have spent the last two weeks frantically stocking up on emergency supplies. 364 miles of bunting has been snapped up at Sainsbury’s and Asda has ordered in a massive 2.8 million Victoria sponge cakes to supply the demand of the masses. Symptoms include irresistible urges to spend money on useless memorabilia (3100 jubilee garden gnomes …
While recently looking through my passport, I’ve suddenly realised I only have three empty pages left despite it not needing to be renewed until 2018. Being well aware that some countries won’t let you enter if you don’t have a certain number of empty pages is a little worrying… but it’s made me reflect on the past few years of traveling. My passport is a mini-memory book of all my …
Traveling can be as scary as it is exciting, and even more so as a woman. When you think of taking that step and leaving the known for the unknown for the first time, I’m sure a lot of different questions flash through your mind. Where to even begin?
It’s a lot. I know. I’ve been there. I’ve chased my thoughts all around my head in circles worrying about what …
O Australia! The country that has captured my heart with its great open roads, natural beauty, exotic weather, amazing quality of life, out-of-this-world vintage shopping (once you know where to look) and my favourite city in the world: Melbourne.
I’ve had the most amazing 20 months in this country and as my second year working visa fast approaches its expiration date, I feel the urge to advertise and sell Australia as …
