For Veronika's birthday this year, she decided that she wanted to go and do some wine tasting. When most people think of Australia, wine generally doesn't come to mind, however the country has many excellent wine regions such as the Barossa Valley in South Australia, the Hunter Valley in New South Wales and Margaret River in [...]
After island hopping around Southern Thailand, we had finally found our perfect tropical island paradise on Koh Phangan. For our first two days on the island we had been complete beach bums, just lazing in the sun, swimming in the warm tropical water and swinging in our hammock, so we thought it was finally time [...]
This week's travel photo is of a collection of Buddha statues located in a museum building of Wat Xieng Thong in Luang Prabang, Laos. There were statues of all shapes and sizes located around this building. Some looked really old, others were newer, but there were certainly too many to count.
Right in the heart of Chiang Rai in Northern Thailand is a beautiful golden clock tower, built in the typical Thai style. For two days as I explored this interesting city, I passed by this clock tower several times, and in the evenings as I walked to the night market, I could always see it [...]
Flights are one of the most expensive parts of travel, and they can quickly eat through your budget, particularly if you are budget traveller backpacking around the world. Unfortunately, it is often a necessity and an unavoidable expense, but there are ways to save money and reduce the impact that flights have on your budget. [...]
One week in Tuscany, Italy just wasn't enough. In fact, even though we had seen so much of this beautiful province and explored so many of it's interesting towns, we still had only just scratched the surface. We hadn't even made it to one of Tuscany's most popular cities - Pisa. Luckily, due to the [...]
This week's travel photo is of an offering plate inside the main shrine at Wat Indraviharn in Bangkok, Thailand. Wat Indraviharn is characterized by it's huge 32m tall standing Buddha statue.
I can't quite believe it, but it has actually been an entire year today since I launched this travel blog with this post. I was so excited about starting my own travel blog that I dived head first straight into it without knowing a lot about it. Probably something that most travel bloggers can relate [...]
I've been busy training for my next big adventure lately, which I will tell you all about in coming weeks. A huge part of my training has been climbing as many mountains as I can, and this panorama is the view from the top of Mount Edwards in Moogerah Peaks National Park in South East [...]
If you have been to Thailand, there is a very good chance that you have sampled the delight that is sticky rice with mango. I find the texture of sticky rice to be very inviting and I ate it with a lot of street food that I came across in the country. The combination of [...]
