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,…
A newly single friend of mine asked me the other week for ideas for a trip she could take by herself; the first one abroad since her break up. It got me thinking…where and what makes a good destination for first time solo travel. I know this topic has been covered umpteen times on travel forums and I am not here to reinvent the wheel, but I feel that there…
Travelling as an activity is a hugely satisfying leisure pursuit that can result in you seeing, tasting and experiencing much of what the World has to offer. What has surprised me the most about travel, is how much I have got out of travelling. There is a danger this is going to sound like a CV or job application, but the things I have been lucky enough to…
Erin, an amazing Australian friend of mine (whom I met in a hostel in Dubrovnik a few years back), once told me a brilliant quotation that has stuck with me. It goes, “travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”. If you are here, reading my blog about travel, you will have probably heard it before. If not; well, here you go. Take it in, savour it, because…
On a recent flight, I was surrounded by a party heading to Slovenia to…erm, party. One of the group, exclaimed to the others a few minutes after we took off, “when we land, this will be my 50th country! And, all before my 30th birthday too!” The milestone birthday, it turns out, was being celebrated in Slovenia, so the girl in question made it to her target by a…