AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 28 Mar 2009 | Views [199]
Last night, after a little concern over the smoke lingering in the forest, we soon found ourselves distracted. There were a million stars keeping us amused... too long in the city and you begin to forget that they are still there. It's so beautiful ... Read more >
Tags: camping, nsw, family
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 28 Mar 2009 | Views [171]
Slightly nervous driving in. The sun, huge on the horizon, signals that there's only a few more minutes of light before the darkness envelopes us. It's not really the fading light that's jangling my nerves - setting up a tent in the dark isn't that ... Read more >
Tags: camping, nsw, family, map, lost, wingello
NORWAY | Tuesday, 5 Jun 2007 | Views [914] | Comments [2]
Huh... who'd have thunk it? I'd find myself in Oslo presenting to a global eco-tourism conference, drawing on work experience but also travel tales near and far, to piece together an angle on a complex world. I met some great people and wonder if ... Read more >
Tags: weird and crazy, conference, responsible tourism
NORWAY | Monday, 14 May 2007 | Views [932] | Comments [1]
Oslo; first impressions. Green, calm and clean. It's so nice to have arrived at the Oslo airport which smelled of popcorn and looked like a stylish entrance to a sauna, all glass and wood and light. This was a contrast after the awful mayhem of ... Read more >
Tags: the great outdoors, oslo, conference
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 10 Jul 2006 | Views [877] | Comments [1]
There's not a lot of bugs in England, but I just managed to sit down on a small ant hill, alive with small black creatures, scurrying & carrying their loads across the cliff top. I was trying to plant my bum firmly behind a tussocky mound so I ... Read more >
Tags: the great outdoors, climbing, jemima
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 10 Jul 2006 | Views [622]
Furry woodland creatures spotted on tour: * Grey Squirrel, alive and well in the Westonbirt Arboretum * Bumblebees - lots of them, but apparently in a mysterious decline across the British Isles. You've gotta rate any animal that is anatomically impossible.... Read more >
Tags: Statistical updates
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 10 Jul 2006 | Views [719]
The Bean's first... well everything practically! she'll remember none of it, so let's make a list. * FLIGHT:: this long haul flight saw the Bean very well behaved. she slept through takeoff and landing between Singapore and London and about 10 of ... Read more >
Tags: Family
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 25 May 2006 | Views [866] | Comments [1]
Now THIS is travelling... imagine 9 months cocooned in a dark, wet environment where sounds are muffled and sensations insulated. It's home, although altogether a foreign place and not somewhere it's possible to visit once you've left. And then ... Read more >
Tags: philosophy of travel, travel with children
THAILAND | Saturday, 12 Mar 2005 | Views [548]
We're killing time in a bakery/coffee shop next to the Siam Centre. The bus threw us out at the airport after an all-nighter from Vientiane, crossing out of Laos' borders and into Thailand at the Friendship Bridge and then endless miles of real Dual ... Read more >
Tags: Airports
LAOS | Friday, 11 Mar 2005 | Views [991]
I'm scribbling notes in the Luang Nam Tha airport "waiting lounge"; rammed earth floor, bamboo hut and BeerLao bunting hanging abundantly from the grass roof. "Sabaidee"... and a glass of Lao green tea arrives steaming. There's ... Read more >
Tags: Weird and crazy
LAOS | Saturday, 5 Mar 2005 | Views [1469] | Comments [2]
Relax, then laugh. Relax some more and laugh again. So goes an afternoon of tubing down the river in Vang Vieng (Laos)
At
the end of the dry season, the Nam Song river runs pretty slow –
sometimes imperceptibly drifting around long ... Read more >
Tags: laughter
LAOS | Monday, 28 Feb 2005 | Views [969] | Comments [1]
Much to STC’s delight, we found some Heffalumps in Vang Vieng.
Whilst watching a herd of water buffalo loll about in the river, which
we thought was pretty impressive in itself, we spied 2 even bigger grey
lumps further up the banks.
... Read more >
Tags: adventures
LAOS | Sunday, 27 Feb 2005 | Views [641]
Yesterday, I saw a desiccated monkey lying on top of a mysterious pile
roots, bark and leaves – the shop of a local herbalist layed out on a
blanket in front of the post office. There were a dozen or so blankets
offering grubby organic wares, but only ... Read more >
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
LAOS | Saturday, 26 Feb 2005 | Views [793]
Is it possible? At first glance, Laos seems spotless – devoid of the
endless blue plastic bags that littler Cambodia from the temples,
through the slums and down to the beaches. There’s a tidy town award
here in the making !
The slow streets ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
CAMBODIA | Friday, 25 Feb 2005 | Views [651]
I didn’t expect to find myself watching TV in Cambodia… but the
daily siesta forced upon us by cloying weather and heat radiating off
at a nuclear temperature from the concreted roads and buildings, has us
scuttling indoors for a few hours of relief.... Read more >
Tags: Weird and crazy
CAMBODIA | Wednesday, 23 Feb 2005 | Views [1005] | Comments [2]
Damn! That malaria pill is still in my pocket. I must take it
sometime today. After all it cost me a small fortune to visit the GP
and buy all the tablets – they came in very unhelpful packs of 7… The
pharmacist presented me with about 11 little ... Read more >
Tags: doctors, hospitals & health
CAMBODIA | Saturday, 19 Feb 2005 | Views [1375] | Comments [6]
Bubble tea is not a local delight that I’ll return for in a hurry. Just
what are those globules of brown tacky goo at the bottom of my drink?
Not unpleasant in flavour (not much flavour to describe really!); but
the fact that they get sucked up the ... Read more >
Tags: food
CAMBODIA | Friday, 18 Feb 2005 | Views [717]
Roger Dixon... artist in residence - at Coaster's Resort, a few doors down from 'the gallery'. Roger
was in Serendipity beach for several months on a painting trip of his
own when he handed a brush over to some of the beach kids. Only a few
days ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
CAMBODIA | Friday, 18 Feb 2005 | Views [640] | Comments [2]
On the tropical beaches of Sihanoukville, Cambodia a bunch of kids have
been given paint brushes and canvas for the first time in their lives.
It's a small break from trying to earn a living selling fruit and
collecting cans from the tourists on ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
CAMBODIA | Friday, 18 Feb 2005 | Views [1136]
The dish with no official name, not being on any menu – merely a
concoction thown together by some generous women hosts at a small
roadside cafe near the Ream naval base. They looked at us quizzickly
when we asked for some food. The request was fine ... Read more >
Tags: food
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