Travel Tales: Analee Matthews
Name: Analee Matthews Age: 38 Occupation: Editor, Fitness First magazine. Favourite travel destination?: Vietnam. Worst travel experience?: I think every experience is valuable even if it’s not enjoyable at the time. Best meal you’ve ever had while travelling?: The street-fare in Vietnam (pho/noodle soup, rice paper rolls). Best/scariest/funniest drive?: The old route 66 in the US – [...]
Best Australian Blogs Nomination
Guesswhatguesswhat? SheGoes has been nominated in the Sydney Writer’s Centre’s Best Australian Blogs Competition! This is the equivalent of a Gold Logie for bloggers – I could be the Lisa McCune of 2012. If you love me and have a spare 30 seconds, I beseech you – in true narcisstic fashion – to vote for [...]
What makes you book?
I work in the travel industry and we spend a lot of time wondering what makes people book a trip. Is it the price? Is the package inclusions? Is it because they have to go to a wedding and they may as well extend their stay? Who decides? And how do they decide? For me, it’s [...]
Travel Hot List for 2012
This is my *impossible to substantiate list of places you should go if you want to out-cool everyone, including that guy at the dinner party who says he is a foreign diplomat but who might be a spy: 1. Sri Lanka India without all the hassle. Less people equals more order. Transport runs to schedule, [...]
Trivia tuesday: Porn park
This one goes out to all the lovers … Which country has a theme park that is dedicated to biblical get-to-know-you games?
Trivia Tuesday: Om wha?
You see a lot of people using ‘om’ out of context these days, as in ‘Om nom nom’, etc. But no, this is not what Om means. Prepare yourself for some deep spirituality, my friends. According to Wikipedia, ‘Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol. It [...]
Honey, I’m home!
Happy day-after-Australia Day everyone! Seven planes, three trains, five buses, one boat, one ferry, countless taxis (old Ambassadors with very springy suspension), even more autorickshaws and a camel later, I am home from India – huzzah! Here are some fun pics of the local Indian transport:
Josh on the boat
One of my all-time favourite people in the world is Josh Crouthamel. Why do I love him so? That’s an easy one … joie de vivre! He is like Tigger. After some red cordial. On a sunny day. And now he is sailing around the world on a boat full of university students and professors doing [...]
Vintage Airline Posters
One word: FABULOUS.
Travel Tales
Name: Ben Hutchings Age: 28 Occupation: Manager, Paperbark Camp Favourite travel destination?: Berlin because, for me, travel success is gauged on the people I meet along the way. I try to shy away from tourist traps and generally won’t even visit the proclaimed ‘must see’ sites to a destination as I seek true community fun. [...]
