With this latest guest post, we are heading over to the other side of the world…the other side of the world if you are in the UK and Europe! If you are in Sydney…well, erm…then, you are still a good flight away! No matter, you are in safe hands as my old friend, former colleague, British expat and some time lookalike, Greg, takes you on a tour of…
I fell in love on my first solo trip to Australia and New Zealand. I encountered a love that held no boundaries, a love that came in a number of tempting flavours and, most importantly of all, a love that gave me an immense amount of pleasure! That love came in the form of the chocolate covered biscuity goodness of Arnott’s Tim Tams. Being a vain, self-obsessed health freak,…
When I’m deciding on where I want to travel, I take a lot of inspiration from photos I have seen in newspapers, magazines and on the Internet; via my day-dreaming browsing on Google and friends’ Facebook photos of their travels. What grabs me is ‘that photo’…the one picture where you look in awe at a place or scene that looks so magical, so unreal that you feel that…
I have mentioned before how great travelling (and, particularly, travelling solo) is for meeting people and making new friends. As my travel experience and the number of trips I have taken has grown, I have seemingly developed a knack for spotting potential friends. The kind of friend I would like to stay in touch with after spending some time travelling with them for a bit or sharing some kind of travel experience with that person via…
Back in 2005, I had just secured what I thought was going to be the job of a lifetime. This was my first graduate position (after many unsuccessful job applications) and was to my mind a job where I could forge a long-term career. My initial reaction was one of joy at getting the job, but then came the mild panic. My problem? I hadn’t travelled to the…