Paros represents everything great about the Cyclades in one place. With the typical narrow whitewashed streets found throughout these Greek Islands, breathtaking scenery and natural beauty to match Santorini, beautiful golden beaches that are on a par with the neighbouring Naxos and a touch of the glamour you find in Mykonos; Paros really is the Cyclades ‘all-rounder’. Best For? With something for everyone, Paros appeals to a large…
Beyond a certain age (right about your late teens) the thought of travelling with your parents fills the average person with a sense of dread. The chance to holiday with friends on drunken adventures in Ibiza, backpacking around South East Asia or simply taking trips with a beloved understandably holds a far greater appeal than a trip with the old folks. Even though, like you, I have experienced much…
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…
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…