I’ve travelled to more than 60 countries… that’s A LOT by any standard! And throughout my travels I was on full time employment. No, I’ve never worked for an airline or tour company. However, while some of it was work related, so both cost and time were covered by my employer at the time, over 80%...
Infront of the Big Blue Bear, Denver When it comes to travel, it is full of surprises, sometimes literally around the corner. On an exciting 3-week road trip across the USA (Boston to Los Angeles) with no set itinerary, my friend TG were starting off Day5 from Cheyenne in Wyoming State, where we’d...
Night tour of the famous Bratislava Castle Frantically planning our next move out of Paris, my sister and I were googling for the cheapest & shortest route via Geneva (Switzerland), destination Vienna (Austria) to catch up with my friend Rita. Price looked good @$60 one way per person to get in...
I’m part of generation BBC (Born Before Computers) – and proudly so, I must add! And it fascinates me how much technology has changed and taken over our everyday life. Do you remember (waaaay back) when Windows XP was the most common operating system, particularly the desktop wallpaper which...
Standing across from Arc de Triumph I bid farewell to my gracious hostess and friend, Catherine, as she stepped out of her disembarking station shouting, “Enjoy!” It was Day2 of my vacation in Paris and therefore only the second time I was using the underground train to get around. The day before...
Travel is enlightenment and sobering. One of the many ‘things-to-do’ in Vientiane, the capital of Laos (Northern neighbour of Thailand) is to visit the COPE. An acronym for Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise, it is a charity funded majorly by the US government, to support treatment and...
What do you do if you are travelling abroad and ‘life happens’? Such as: unexpected rain storm wifi not working documents are lost to theft or forgotten in the transport that’s already left? promised pick-up is nowhere in sight Communication failure Here are … ways you could...
If you ever find yourself in Bangkok, Thailand, with a day to spare, one unique experience you might want to add to your ‘to do’ list, is to try river-shopping. Not by a river, or near a river, but IN a river canal (while on a boat)! It will require travelling out of the huge and populous city, for...
We made it to our first city stop at 17.15 hours, its name similar to the grandest water feature on the continent, Niagara Falls in Niagara County, New York State of USA. It took us another hour or so to get to our target site and by the time we’d entered the park and paid our entry fees, it was...
Listening keenly to the ex-convict tour guide while sitting in what was formerly a prison dorm Located in Table Bay about 11 km from land, within sight of Cape Town, a visit to the former Prison on Robben Island, is one of the most poignant trips you’ll make into the history of South Africa and...