Name:  Mark Thomson Occupation: Assistant Director of Public Relations for Anantara Resorts and Spas Favourite travel destination?: Laos Worst travel experience?: Getting drugged on a train from Madrid to Algeciras and still managing to stay wake for the entire 12 hour journey (it’s a very long story …) Best meal you’ve ever had while travelling?: Street [...]

I’m fat and I’m OK. I’m healthy, happy and my weight doesn’t get in the way of anything except for wearing bikinis which, quite frankly, doesn’t make up a large part of my day. Ever. Not once have I gotten up in the morning and thought, ‘What am I going to wear to work?’ and [...]

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 – [...]

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 [...]

Have you watched An Idiot Abroad? My darling Mummy ji loaned me a copy of the DVD and boy, am I glad she did. I am transfixed. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, here’s a 101: Comedians Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their hapless mate Karl Pilkington off to see the seven wonders of [...]

There is nothing I love more than homemade chutney and handicrafts so The Nundle Go for Gold Festival, held annually over the Easter long weekend, is a cracker. Stalls line the main street of Nundle selling delights such as goats milk soap (complete with friendly commentary about the whopping, uncooperative udders of a favoured goat), [...]

Name:  Angela Saurine Age:  34 Occupation: National travel reporter, News Ltd and Escape.com.au    Favourite travel destination?: Laos. I loved floating down the Mekong watching life along the river, visiting villages, watching monks piggyback each other in Luang Prabang and trekking or cycling to turquoise waterfalls, lagoons and amazing limestone caves. Worst travel experience?: Getting severe food poisoning on [...]

The good news is that it actually looks like a Museum of Contemporary Art.  The bad news is that the current collection looks like a garage sale. How are bog standard traditional aboriginal paintings on bark considered ‘contemporary’? And what’s with all the Year 12 major works? There are some stunning pieces such as Ah [...]

Name: Andrea Black Occupation: Writer Favourite travel destination?: New York Worst travel experience?: Sitting next to an enormous cage fighter on a 14-hour flight, he’’d taken some sleeping tablets and kept twitching and in the process, hitting me. Best meal you’’ve ever had while travelling?: Chilli crabs in Singapore, hairy crabs in Shanghai, anything with dulce de [...]

American author David Sedaris tells a story that neatly sums up my dilemma.  It’s about hotplates. One day he is driving with his friend she tells him that if he ever wants to be really successful, he will have to start turning off hotplates. ‘Huh?’ I hear you say. No, this isn’t some obscure cooking [...]