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“Would you like to take part in a travel bloggers’ blog hop?” A travel bloggers’ what hop? Amanda, from Not a Ballerina (there’s a story there!) emailed asking me to join the hop, skip and a jump from travel blog to travel blog where, having been tagged, we in turn pass the baton on to […]
Let’s be honest, when setting off to travel Australia, despite our primary desire to see the country, the most sought after sign you have your eyes peeled for when on the road is… Whether out on the open road, pulling into town, or about to do a National Park hike – the first thing we […]
I love delving into travel journals – My travel journals, your travel journals (if you’ll let me take a peek!), or in this case… a published travel journal – The Travel Journal of Jacqueline & Lee Bouvier Jacqueline Bouvier – the future Jackie Kennedy Onnasis and her sister Lee’s travel journal from 1951 in Europe. One Special […]
Serendipity and Travel go hand in hand When I wrote a post a few years ago asking What does Travel Mean to You? I said: “I love travel’s unexpected delights and the Serendipity of it” 🙂 Just as it’s inevitable that we encounter new places, new food and new people on our travels – It’s inevitable […]
We see the world through a rainbow coloured spectrum – But how about focusing on just the primary colours of Red, Blue, Yellow – plus Green and White. This is the challenge bloggers have been set. Last year, my Capture the Colour photos primarily reflected my trip to Europe (although my favourite was the one and […]
One of our fabulous readers Red Nomad Oz, travels Australia and records her discoveries on her entertaining website Amazing Australian Adventures. In 2011 Red wrote a post for us here called My Journey Jottings Aussie Odyssey recounting where she’d spotted Journey Jottings’ Journal Maps and Mail-It Maps as she criss-crossed Australia’s outback visiting Mildura in Victoria, Wentworth […]
Some things simply don’t come up naturally in a conversation – Like… Why my eyes are two slightly different colours Getting married in a 6-seater airplane over the Indian Ocean I drew the maps for Lonely Planet’s 1st edition of Australia So here are 13 things you most likely don’t know about me, Linda […]
If you’d asked me this time last year “What are your travel plans for next year?” I’d simply have replied – “Scotland… I’m going to visit my Mum who lives in Scotland” That’s it. full-stop But the magic of travel highlights is their serendipity – Travel Highlights By way of example, I’d never have imagined a […]
““Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best — ” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called” quote […]
Have you had something ‘bad’ happen? Which at the time felt like the ‘end of the world’ but a while later you’ve said… “That was the luckiest day ever… If it wasn’t for that happening, I’d never have ended up on this path!” Such as.. The day our working visa application for Sweden was refused. We’d […]
