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Best Kept Travel Secrets I was thrilled when I received a nomination from Kirsty Wilson of Travel Tips Plus to reveal 3 of my best kept travel secrets as part of a Blog Tag game initiated by Tripbase. (Click on the images below to get the FREE pdfs 😉 ) My 3 Best Kept Travel Secrets feature in the blue […]
No generic journals, please! I never take a generic journal away with me when I go travelling , bought prior to the trip. One of my ‘travel secrets‘ is to buy a small (my preference is an A6 sized) jotter/notebook in each country/region I visit so associations of the travel journal are connected to the place […]
The downsides to long haul air travel are all ‘D’s… Dehydration, DVT and Deafness (as the pressure changes on descent) 🙁 To overcome these, here are my tips – Dehydration: I take a water bottle with me – Whilst there can be no liquid in it as you board (current security) the larger planes have […]
Map Journals are great for ‘simply’ summarizing where you’ve been and what you’ve been doing ~ on a single sheet Within days of returning from the Sydney Trade Fair at the start of March, I flew off to Scotland (click ‘Postcards from Scotland‘ to read all about that trip!) Each month this year I’m entering a […]
Its funny how we clamber to travel and explore other parts of the globe, whilst travellers from other parts of the globe clamber to travel and experience our home turf! Places, that to us are merely where we go about our everyday business are to them a far off distant land worthy of exploring; areas that […]
When Ron Mueck’s exhibition at GOMA (Gallery of Modern Art) came to Brisbane… I went on the opening day! It was an extraordinary experience of observing human forms; finding oneself staring transfixed at bodily details. Peering into the worlds of human beings frozen in time. At times the gallery crowd became part of the scene. The Wild […]
When I arrived in Scotland mid March the Snowdrops were in full bloom in both cultivated gardens and wild woodland glades ~ I was due to return to Australia 6 weeks later so the chances of seeing the first of the bluebells would possibly have been a little optimistic ~ But then Eyjafjallajökull, the Icelandic […]
Due to the Icelandic volcanic eruption of Eyjafjallajökull my stay in Scotland was extended 🙂 Making the most of the extra time, my sister and I did a coastal walk along the Solway Firth south of Dalbeatie between Sandyhills to Rockcliffe ~ There is something gorgeous about walking a trail that winds along a stone walled cliff’s edge […]
