It’s not often I feel immediately compelled to do something, but when I watched the first episode of ‘Flying to the Ends of the Earth’ on Channel 4 earlier this…
My Christmas and New Year traditions…
Every year when Christmas rolls around, I literally find it impossible to contain my excitement. Christ and New Year is absolutely my favourite time of year – above and beyond…
How to know how much you should be tipping on holiday
One of my biggest confusions when travelling is knowing when and how much to tip. I hate the idea of offending people – so I always do my research before…
Things do to in Paris when it Rains
Pad and I have a habit of getting unlucky with weather. When we were in Australia, Thailand, Hong Kong and the USA earlier in the year – thunder and rain…
My only regret from travelling the world….
Is that I didn’t get contact lenses first. I know that’s a weird thing to write about on a travel blog. But I FINALLY got round to getting contacts this…
What I’ve learnt after one year of travel blogging
Almost one year ago today I started this travel blog. With just over a month to go until Pad and I set off on our RTW trip, we set it…
Night-Time City-Scape Photography
My favourite time to take photos is during the evening when the sun goes down – because for most cities this is when they look the prettiest and the definitely…
Things we’ve learnt whilst travelling.
I know it’s cliche to sit here and say that travelling has been a journey of discovery – but for once – such a cliche is actually pretty true. Cheesy,…
Getting techie with it.
About three years ago I knew absolutely nothing about blogging, or wordpress, or servers or pretty much anything overly techie. Sure, I read blogs, and I used the internet, and…
Skateboards and Hitch Hikers
There are two things in life, which I (being totally honest here) thought only existed in American movies. These two things are: Skateboarders and Hitch Hikers. Sure, I knew that both…
“IT’S CHRISTMAS!” (read that like Slade sings it)
CHRISTMAS IS HERE! Which is awesome. And the world didn’t end like those Mayan people thought it would, which means…. We actually get to open our presents! Oh isn’t life…
If Carlsberg did boats…. Rock The Boat, NZ.
The second half of our trip to Bay of Islands was to be spent on the Rock Cruise. I’d been looking forward to this since we first booked our flight…