Travel Tips

Guide to the Great Ocean Road: Australia's most popular road trip

Guide to the Great Ocean Road: Australia's most popular road trip

April 16, 2019
Beaches, Great Ocean Road, Inspiration, Travel Tips
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Spanning over 400kms of scenic coastline, the highway which stretches from the town of Torquay in Victoria to Nelson on the boarder of South Australia, is one of the most beloved road trips in Australia. As the road winds along through green hills on one side and golden sandy beaches on the other, not only will you be immersed in the bewilderingly beautiful [...]
10 Ways to Survive a Long Airport Layover

10 Ways to Survive a Long Airport Layover

April 15, 2019
Travel Prep, Travel Tips
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Personally, I love the airport. I get all excited like a giddy school child and have my little rituals such as drinking overpriced wine to calm my nerves and spending every last bit of currency on foreign candy and Dunkin Donuts. It always amused me what Dom Joly (Britsh comedian and author of The Dark Tourist) said of his airport ritual of parking himse[...]
4 questions to ask yourself before taking a photo with an animal while traveling

4 questions to ask yourself before taking a photo with an animal while traveling

April 2, 2019
Travel Tips
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I never swam with dolphins as a kid. And it killed me. It seemed that ALL (said with the whiny tone of eight-year-old Emily) of my friends had a pastel-framed photo with a shiny, smiling dolphin, hung prominently on their refrigerators with a Sea World magnet. My jealousy was palpable. My classmates were up-close and personal with beautiful creatures I’d onl[...]
What it's like to fly long-haul on low-cost carrier Scoot

What it's like to fly long-haul on low-cost carrier Scoot

March 26, 2019
Travel Tips
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To say I was suspicious of booking a low-cost carrier to go to to a place that would require over 10 hours of plane travel would be a bold understatement. In fact, when news first hit that Singapore Airlines were launching Scoot, a low-cost airline that offered incredibly cheap deals to go to the likes of Singapore, Bali or Australia I had immediate horror v[...]
4 Amazing Destinations where your travel can help empower women

4 Amazing Destinations where your travel can help empower women

March 8, 2019
Adventure Travel, Solo Travel, Travel Tips
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We love the planet and the people in it, hence we want out traveling to be as sustainable as possible and support the communities we visit. For this blogpost we are so pleased to partner with G Adventures, a small-group adventure travel company and social enterprise that offers more than 700 different tours in more than 100 countries. G Adventures believes i[...]
5 best places to visit on a day trip from Mexico City

5 best places to visit on a day trip from Mexico City

March 3, 2019
Mexico City, Travel Tips
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Mexico City is one of the country’s most vibrant cities. It has it all. History, check. Museums, check. Culture, check. Hipster coffee shops, check. Amazing tacos, check. World class tequila, check. The capital is home to around 9 million people in the city alone. A constantly underestimated tourist spot, travelers have long preferred to visit Mexi[...]
Visiting Vietnam - 10 things you might not know yet

Visiting Vietnam - 10 things you might not know yet

February 2, 2019
Travel Tips, Vietnam
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A few weeks ago I was one lucky Travelette to be invited to Northern Vietnam by Enchanting Travels and Vietnam Airlines. Traveling from buzzing Hanoi to the dreamy region of Sapa and lush Mai Chau our itinerary augured to be as diverse as this beautiful country itself and surely lived up to its promises. Never having visited before I was beyond excite[...]