Travelling, Sri Lanka style: Hatton’s tea plantations
Last night, we stayed in an old tea mansion in Hatton, high amongst Sri Lanka’s verdant tea plantations. The hills roll and tumble, every inch covered in short, green tea […]
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Canter past Patagonian icefields. Sail the tranquil waters of Lake Como in Italy. Sip coffee in a Palestinian village. Listen to the ancient voices of Australia’s Arnhem Land. Climb the mountain paths of northern Albania. Let’s go!
Colombo via Rum Jungle and Connemara
Flying from Melbourne to Colombo via Kuala Lumpur, the tv map on the aircraft wall has thrown up some gems – it’s listing Arthur’s Seat (a beauty spot on the […]
Sri Lanka a-go. Going… going…
Just putting together the final touches on the moving carnival that is now en route to Sri Lanka, arriving at 23.59 this evening. Precisely. Thanks to my globe-trotting friends, I […]
See Tokyo in style and go warp-drive in Sri Lanka: travel deals 10 February 2013
Click on for Mark Jensen’s bbq octopus recipe, Noosa Food & Wine, Qld. Beautiful people eating beautiful food: it’s Noosa in a nutshell come this May. Otherwise, Tokyo in style […]
Places in the heart: Anthony Field
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is ”chill city” for Anthony Field, aka the Blue Wiggle, who says visiting the red heart of the Northern Territory is like going on a retreat. […]
Bargains and bright ideas: from Middle Earth to Malaysia
Fantasy: Sir Ian McKellen in The Lord of the Rings, New Zealand. Are you a shopper, a temple lover, volcano hopper and or film fan? Here’s your escapade. Where to? New Zealand. […]
Dine in the desert, lap up the luxury: travel deals 3 February 2013
It could only be the Maldives. Lap up the luxury in the Maldives, dine in the desert beneath the stars at Uluru or snigger like a schoolboy in Cappadocia, in […]
Would you visit Egypt now?
Adrere Amellal ecolodge, Siwa. Two weeks ago, I started writing a post about the idea of visiting Egypt once again. It was time: tour prices have halved, even from the […]
Swing and sing across Texas: travel deals 27 January 2013
Do glamour, Gregory Peck and gelato in Italy, swim with dolphins in Western Australia or hit the road, Jack, and swing across Texas, in this week’s round-up of domestic and […]
From Elysium to Middle Earth: travel deals 20 Jan 2013
The crowd-pleasing silvery gibbon, Indonesia. Track down the Asian Big 5, find Elysium in the Hunter Valley or hit Middle Earth, in this week’s domestic and international travel deals. ACT With the […]