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What’s the statistical chance of bumping into someone you know when in some far flung land, miles from home? Tales of a Traveller – Serendipitous Encounters Slow Boat to Sumatra We were sailing from Singapore to Sumatra aboard a rubber cargo boat that took just 12 passengers (the number that could fit horizontally on the […]
Australia Photo ~ Wollumbin ~ Mt Warning ~ Cloud Catcher This photo of Mt Warning in northern NSW, Australia is taken coming over the range from Natural Bridge in Queensland into the Tweed Valley. The peak of Mt Warning is a volcanic plug and stands proud in the centre of the caldera. Mt Warning was […]
With Easter and ANZAC Day (in Australia) our Travelling Tales theme this month is Celebrations, Festivals & Carnivals Kirsty Wilson I enjoyed Easter in Malta once & that was an experience. We were staying with locals who knew it was important to arrive early for the Easter Parade. We claimed a position on a landing […]
Australia Photo ~ Buttress roots seen near the base of Wollumbin (Mt Warning), Northern NSW Along the border between Queensland and NSW are some beautiful sections of rainforest. Lamington National Park is on the Queensland side, and the Border Ranges is on the NSW side, along with Wollumbin (Mt Warning) I love rainforest ~ Its […]
When travelling from England to Australia 130 years ago loved ones would wait an excruciating 6 months to hear whether your vessel arrived safely in Australia or had been shipwrecked along the way. Passage by sailing clipper between England and Australia was about a 90 day one-way journey so your letter home to say “We’ve landed” would […]
Australia Photo ~ Natural Bridge (also known as Natural Arch) S.E.Queensland Natural Bridge in South East Queensland, Australia is a stunning combination of sculptured landforms and lush green rainforest. Only half an hour inland from Surfers Paradise, or an hour and a quarter from the city of Brisbane its a perfect introduction to some of Australia’s […]
We’re doing something we’ve never done before! I can’t say it’s something I’m happy about, but in response to the market… We’ve discontinued a line. Our Australia Scrapbook Pack is now, no longer 🙁 Having introduced the Scrapbook Pack in 2006 (by public demand), we’ve had 5 happy years of supplying those with a bent for cutting, […]
Having spent a glorious European summer living, working and travelling in Scandinavia my boyfriend and I were homeward bound, hitch-hiking south from Sweden to Denmark. We’d taken the ferry from Gothenburg to Frederikshavn and were on the final leg to Esbjerg (to catch the ferry back to England) when, we had a disagreement. It was over […]
This month’s travelling tales theme on our Facebook page is sculpture or art in public places. I wrote a post about some Street Sculptures in Brisbane I came across on a day in the city and thought it’d be fun to see what art works other people have noticed on their travels. To set the tone Jean Doorn offered […]
Why go to New Zealand now? Because if you love *landscape*, New Zealand is your dream destination. If you’ve had yearnings to see the fjords of Norway, the geysers of Iceland, the lowlands of Scotland or the Alps of Switzerland save yourself the angst of the manic European traffic, and the hoards (250million) of tourists and […]
