Cape to Cape (the slightly soft way)
I am a paradox. I like the idea of hiking through the wilderness, with the wind in my hair, staring thoughtfully out to sea from a rocky headland. Yet, at […]
I am a paradox. I like the idea of hiking through the wilderness, with the wind in my hair, staring thoughtfully out to sea from a rocky headland. Yet, at […]
I am not normally a cold weather person. But Perth is currently in the grips of a torturous heatwave (three days in a row of 42C for starters), and we […]
For a long time, I considered India too intimidating. Too crowded, too poor, too confronting, too likely to make me sick. But then, so many people I knew had visited […]
Airports can be places of great stress. I know this because I passed through a couple a few weeks ago in order to go to Melbourne to watch my glorious Eagles […]
During the Belle Epoque, Montmartre was bustling with impoverished artists, lured there by the cheap rent and the fact that there were plenty of other impoverished artists to hang out […]
I love the unpredictability of travel, when even the best laid plans go a little bit wrong and you have to come up with a solution that can be even […]
They’re such handy little reference tomes, and yet, a part of me doesn’t like my travel experience dictated by a guidebook. So, the question remains: is it worth your while […]
So we’d just arrived on the Greek island of Kos, we were partaking in our first Mythos beer at the local taverna and waxing lyrical about how marvellous island life […]
Firstly, let me just say, I am not a lycra clad, cleat wearing, five thousand dollar bike riding fanatic. In any sense. And yet, I love the concept of […]
Last weekend, I ventured out for a beautiful bushwalk through the Rugged Hills Nature Reserve near Toodyay here in Western Australia. It’s a rarely visited, basically unknown little corner of […]