INDONESIA | Monday, 7 Jul 2008 | Views [21]
To walk to the Sultan's Water Palace in Yogyakarta you have to pass through the bird market. As you approach, many of the shops only display bamboo bird cages and it passes through your mind that maybe they have removed all the birds because of the risk ... Read more >
Tags: bird flu, java, google, indonesia, yogyakarta, doctor, hospital, near miss
INDONESIA | Saturday, 5 Jul 2008 | Views [15]
Years ago we spent so much time on the islands between Timor and Lombok that we had no time left for this part of Indonesia so this is the first time we have ever explored central Java.
Not surprisingly we have chosen to base ourselves in Yogyakarta, ... Read more >
Tags: yogjakarta, java, prambanan, borobudur, temples, becak
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 24 Jun 2008 | Views [32]
Now I don't profess to know everything there is to know about travel, but I have travelled quite a lot and learn't a lot from these experiences which I have started to collate into a single set of travel tips for anyone interested.
World Nomads ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 16 Jun 2008 | Views [73]
The following is taken from an interview with Philanthropy Australia. Simon Monk is a social entrepreneur who embodies a new style of giving. The founder and director of The World Nomads Group, Simon and his team established the Footprints Network ... Read more >
Tags: entrepreneur, footprints, giving, difference, travel, philanthropy, csr, responsiblity
VIETNAM | Friday, 25 Apr 2008 | Views [204]
"Don't drink the ice!" We've all heard it before. But having spent 20 odd years travelling around Asia I have pretty much learned the hard way how to stay healthy and eating on the street is a breeze: Pho for breakfast, Da Chanah (iced ... Read more >
Tags: jetstar, food poisoning, revenge, toilet, accident, cheap airlines, beware
VIETNAM | Sunday, 20 Apr 2008 | Views [108]
Cantho and the nearby town of Soc Trang are the source of some of our strongest memories of the country: being turned away from every hotel because they just didn't have a policy on what to do with tourists who fronted up at the front desk; when we ... Read more >
Tags: cantho, mekong, markets, boats, memories
VIETNAM | Friday, 18 Apr 2008 | Views [144]
Sometime you just can't know how it's going to work out. Today we had planned to get to Cantho, knew it must be possible, but also knew that there weren't any obvious or direct buses, so were going to have to make it up as we went along. This is usually ... Read more >
Tags: journey, experience, vietnam, mekong, hustler, cantho, mytho, cyclo
VIETNAM | Thursday, 17 Apr 2008 | Views [102]
Why do travellers (tourists?) go on those mini-bus tours everywhere? The only people you'll meet are other travellers or tourists. I know it makes it all so easy but surely far less of an experience? It never ceases to amaze me how far off the beaten ... Read more >
Tags: saigon, mekong delta, ben tre, off the beaten track, travel with children
VIETNAM | Monday, 14 Apr 2008 | Views [93]
We dozed in the back of the shagged out 1940's bus for sleep definitely wasn't possible. Rumble, bump, rattle, and thump, all night long. As the first rays of dawn glimmered outside, I mentally forced myself out of the slumber, as stretching definitely ... Read more >
Tags: saigon, ho chi minh, memories, beggars, traffic, travel with children
VIETNAM | Tuesday, 1 Apr 2008 | Views [137] | Comments [1]
This argument seems to have been around certainly for as long as I have been travelling, with people who define themselves as 'travellers' usually feeling they are somehow superior to 'tourists'. I know Tony Wheeler from Lonely Planet for one doesn't ... Read more >
Tags: tourist, traveller, saigon, memory, dmz, mekong
JAPAN | Tuesday, 1 Jan 2008 | Views [1187]
Travellers often avoid Japan because of it's reputation for being expensive. This was certainly true a decade or so ago, but these days it's quite the bargain.
We visit Japan fairly regularly and go to get our fix of two things: the food ... Read more >
Tags: culture, japan, onsen, hot springs, children, tokyo, experience
HONG KONG | Monday, 3 Dec 2007 | Views [300] | Comments [3]
We were just returning home after six exhausting days setting up the World Nomads China office in Shenzhen and were in a taxi on the way to the airport.
Look carefully and you can see at least FIVE mobile phones in his cab ... most of ... Read more >
Tags: taxi, mobile phone, nokia, nomads, business, china, hong kong, humour, bizarre, dangerous
CHINA | Friday, 30 Nov 2007 | Views [301]
Smell. The first thing you notice is the smell. As you step off the air-conditioned train scents waft up from from bakeries and noodle shops to mix with the odours from the sewers and stale cigarettes.
Actually, in fairness, I find Shenzhen ... Read more >
Tags: work, business, culture, economy
GREECE | Friday, 9 Nov 2007 | Views [317]
While travelling with children has it rewards, sometimes I feel like an Octopus with four mouths. Our energetic boys have just turned 3 and 5 respectively so try to imagine using your hands to read a menu, catch a falling water glass, grab a young one ... Read more >
Tags: travel with children, rewarding, exhausting, Educational Experiences, food, tips
GREECE | Thursday, 8 Nov 2007 | Views [237]
Because of the extended nature of this trip, it has been impossible to take that much time off from work so this is the first time I have really taken it with me. It didn't start out too well, with my wonderfully tiny 12" Mac choosing to die just ... Read more >
Tags: business, wireless, mobile, 3g, nokia, telstra, travel fuel
GREECE | Wednesday, 24 Oct 2007 | Views [425]
Sitting on the beach in the little fishing village of Apollonas on the northern tip of the Greek island of Naxos, I pick up a beautifully smooth pebble. Nothing unusual about that, except this one is made of high quality marble and has the most gorgeous ... Read more >
Tags: culture, sculptures, art, greek, marble, beach, naxos, greek islands
GREECE | Thursday, 18 Oct 2007 | Views [318]
Well, it can be 5,000 years old for start. If that seems like a long time, try imagining a man or woman making it in their home and what that might have looked like. It is hard to imagine the world in say the year 2407 and almost impossible to have ... Read more >
Tags: ancient, culture, perspective, philosophy, santorini, tsunami, disaster
GREECE | Tuesday, 16 Oct 2007 | Views [273]
On this trip Riu has, to my horror, become interested in Jesus. He babbles on incessantly with questions that just don't stop causing much mirth with other travellers who don't have to answer the blessed things. In a church on Santorini: Riu : "... Read more >
Tags: laughter, travel with children, riu, questions, jesus, rocket
GREECE | Sunday, 14 Oct 2007 | Views [344] | Comments [1]
All the ancient ruins are spectactular if for nothing else than their age: when you are looking at beautiful jewelry and art, often with very human humour, that is 1900 BC it is breathtaking.
Over the years we have visited many of the anciant ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, philosophy, perspective, history, culture, ancient, ruins
GREECE | Saturday, 13 Oct 2007 | Views [353]
I will never cease to be amazed at how a journey can turn on a dime and memorable days pop out of nowhere when they are least expected. Were you able to engineer them and string such days together, life would be rich indeed.
Our day started ordinarily ... Read more >
Tags: crete, loutro, greek islands, magic, children, travel, family
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