Australia
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Thursday, 3 Jul 2008 | Views [29]
Anyone interested in the complexity of business strategy in the globalised world of the twenty first century should talk half an hour to listen to this fascinating talk by Hannah Jones, Vice President of CSR at Nike. Hannah Jones is responsible for ... Read more >
Tags: csr, nike, footprints, india, hannah jones, corporate, responsibility
Sunday, 29 Jun 2008 | Views [5]
My eldest boy is aged 5 and goes to a nice school here. The kindergarten teacher asked all the Mum's and Dad's to talk to the class about what they did for work, so, since being a 'Director' doesn't mean a great deal to a 5 year old, I went in as ... Read more >
Tags: footprints network, school, children, social experiment
Tuesday, 24 Jun 2008 | Views [83]
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 >
Monday, 16 Jun 2008 | Views [172]
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
Thursday, 13 Sep 2007 | Views [404]
Someone asked me the other day how much stuff you pack for a six week family trip. Answer: when you are carrying it all yourself, exactly the same as a ten day trip!
Online check-in is yet another superb benefit of the digital age: now we can ... Read more >
Tags: travel planning, children, family, travel, nomads, lonely planet, guidebook, home
Tuesday, 4 Sep 2007 | Views [308]
We'd just finished up at the 15th birthday party of the Fred Hollows Foundation who we work with and I was flagging a ride home to Glebe.
"Tambo la mokili" said taxi driver with a huge laugh as I got in. How did he know I work in travel? ... Read more >
Tags: footprints network, taxi, stories, language, zanzibar, footprints
Sunday, 12 Aug 2007 | Views [598] | Comments [1]
A clear night in the remote desert, ochre red dust howls as children and dogs run wild, lit by lots of flickering open fires, people lounging on vehicles in various states of disrepair, like a scene from an indigenous version of Mad Max. On TV it would ... Read more >
Tags: health, aboriginal, culture, indigenous, festival, garma, children, family, politics, experience
Monday, 7 May 2007 | Views [476] | Comments [3]
Here at World Nomads we live for ideas: dream up stuff, design and produce it and see what happens. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But more often than not we find we learn something or achieve something that none of us ever expected, predicted ... Read more >
Tags: the footprints network, world nomads, business, ideas, ted, dreams
Tuesday, 13 Mar 2007 | Views [755] | Comments [1]
Once when I was a boy growing up in the south of England in the 1960's the hedgerows and gardens would support a wonderful butterfly every summer called a Red Admiral. I have no idea if this still exists or if it is now, sadly, almost extinct, but it ... Read more >
Tags: memories, childhood, books, colour
Saturday, 10 Feb 2007 | Views [355]
The boys were at day care yesterday and they were discusing their families:
LEVI: "I love my brother because he doesn't hit me."
RIU: "My brother hits me."
LEVI: "Do you still love him?"
RIU: "Yes.... Read more >
Tags: children, family
Sunday, 10 Dec 2006 | Views [476]
The moment was so short and so fleeting that I can't even remember it. I think it was when I passed through Athens in a wonderful winters day in January 1989, where locals were friendly and the sun was out. I didn't know it at the time, but that moment, ... Read more >
Tags: philosophy of travel, magic, family, yuki
Saturday, 9 Dec 2006 | Views [431]
Riu has just turned 4 and this is his picture of a horse. When asked "What's that underneath the horse?" he said "Dad, and Riu and Kai" in his broad young Australian accent. And what's that to the right of Kai? "Mum .... Read more >
Tags: travel with children, family, children, riu, drawing
Saturday, 2 Sep 2006 | Views [424] | Comments [1]
Now here is something you don't see everyday: this was a Russian photographer working in about 1900 long before the advent of colour photography. He took a series of photo's using only custom built monochrome camera but then produced an approximation ... Read more >
Tags: photography, history, invisible, museum, russia
Friday, 21 Jul 2006 | Views [611]
I have known Anna for years and despite both working online all day, we have this unspoken agreement that we never use e-mail, and only send letters and postcards from wherever we are travelling.
The other day one arrived early in the morning, before ... Read more >
Tags: relaxation, british, letter, friend
Sunday, 23 Apr 2006 | Views [598] | Comments [2]
We first stumbled across Jervis bay when we first hitched around Australia as backpackers in 1989, but it was some years before we discovered a little corner called 'Green patch'.
Incredibly, they were actually going to build Australia's first nuclear ... Read more >
Tags: beach, sunshine, jervis bay, travel with children, magic
Thursday, 30 Mar 2006 | Views [363] | Comments [3]
Three years ago World Nomads was born, and Christy was our very first customer for her trip through Vietnam.
A veteran world nomad last year she came to work for us and has helped us develop these adventure journals into a powerful community ... Read more >
Tags: family, children, perspective
Sunday, 1 Jan 2006 | Views [1512]
The questions below about Australia are from potential visitors. They were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the (sometimes brilliant) answers are the actual responses by the web site officials: Does it ever get windy in Australia? I ... Read more >
Tags: laughter, true stories
Friday, 25 Nov 2005 | Views [232]
This is my personal list of great travel books. Please feel free to add any if you have any suggestions:
Into the heart of Borneo , Redmond O'Hanlon Probably only exceptionally funny for those who have been there and experienced the wonders ... Read more >
Tags: relaxation, reading, books, travel, literature
Sunday, 23 Oct 2005 | Views [412]
For all things wonderful about our world there is no beating National Geographic and Michael Palin writes wonderfully about all those place so many of us want to actually visit. For the inside scoop on any destination there are a few great resources ... Read more >
Tags: travel, national geographic, lonely planet, world nomads, flickr
