Stories behind the stories. By Travel Writer, Amy McPherson
When I decided to travel more in Britain, i didn’t need an excuse to hop on the train and see this beautiful country. However having been following the news I am even more enticed to get up north now. Join Visit England to #lovethenorth Earlier this week, Visit England launched the #lovethenorth campaign to assist …
Architects are going all out and trying to out do each other in the quest to design a building that most resembles our everyday things. In London, a series of modern architecture have become tourist attractions and whether the Londoners like it or not, becoming so popular that more is being built! Love them or …
“Mum! This is like fairy land!” a little girl said as she excitedly ran forward to view the cartoon-like animals illuminating our path. My inner child laughs with delight as I too, were mesmerised by the fantastic lanterns surrounding us. As the Lunar Calendar steps into a new year on Monday into the Year of …
Are you making a move internationally? Got pets you want to take with? Many of you know that at the end of 2014 I made the big move from Australia to the UK. Prior to the move, planning and scheming aside – the biggest questions on both my husband and my lips were: “Shall we …
Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Alice: I don’t much care where. The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go. Alice: …So long as I get somewhere. The …
I’ve decided this year is the year to travel Britain. I know I have just spent a weekend in Hamburg, and will be going to Portugal, Italy and France later in the year, but I am going to at least spend more travelling time in Britain than anywhere else this year…. Because it’s 400th anniversary …
Ok, I am stealing someone else’s tagline, but I’ve decided that Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland really is, the world’s coolest little capital. In terms of temperature, the capital of Iceland really isn’t all that ‘cool’ Well, for starters, Reykjavik is the northernmost national capital of the world, which potentially should make it the ‘coolest’ …
On our trip to Iceland we didn’t really have time to go all the way round, so instead we concentrated on sights that are around the capital Reykjavik, and to our surprise, there were plenty to be seen! Volcanoes are the basis of everything here in Iceland. It forms the land that cities and towns …
We travel not to just ‘see the sights’ – when we decided on a trip to Iceland in winter, we had planned to see more than just the waterfalls and the volcanic plains and beaches; we wanted something extraordinary, something that required not just being there, but also a bit of luck. That something extraordinary …
I think it’s important for everyone to look back to their year and recognise what they had done and achieved. It isn’t a show off exercise, but one that can give you the chance to sit down, relax and think of all the memories that you’ve accumulated in the year, revisit some of the happy …
We’ve been having some ‘heat wave’ in the UK. Temperatures have been in their 2 digits and there is absolutely no chance of a white Christmas (again) this year. And this is felt throughout Europe it seems. When we visited Vienna two weeks ago for the Christmas Markets, it also hit 10-12 degrees! So, determined …
Queen Elizabeth II became Britain’s longest reigning monarch since Queen Victoria this year – she has been on the throne for almost 60 years since the passing of her father King George VI in 1952. That seemed to be a good reason for us to finally make it to Windsor, since moving to London in November …
Most people try to escape winter and go on holidays somewhere warm, in the sun and preferably on a beach and in a resort. Us? No. Seeing that we are finally living in a region where there are distinct four seasons and have proper winters, I am going to take the opportunity to actually enjoy …
As a traveller I don’t believe in politics. I believe in humanity and friendship and I have been avoiding this topic for a long time, but it seems that it’s time to talk about terrorism. News haven’t been pleasant recently. Humans are turning on each other, either on difference in opinion or on the …
You know that moment when you realised that you’ve just filled your entire camera’s memory on the same back drop over and over again? I had that moment recently when we spent a weekend in Lausanne, sitting on the lake shore being mesmerised by the snow dusted mountain peaks directly across the water from us. …
It’s Guy Fawkes Day this Thursday (5 November), something that I experienced last year as a fresh arrival, and having just came from a country where fireworks are banned (outside the nation’s tiny capital) it was quite a stir. People freely let off fireworks in their backyards, on the streets and along the riverbanks, …
Come together, right now. Over me. My mother is a big Beatles fan. I am also partial to a good tune by the Fab Four, and visiting Liverpool was somewhat of a pilgrimage, made on behalf of my mother, to the home of the band that made millions of girls worldwide scream their hearts out …
Last in my interview series about family travel is with well known travel blogger Lois Yasay. She co-founded the We Are Sole Sisters website sharing her travelling stories, recommendations and advice, as well as encouraging more women to make travel happen for themselves, and is now also e-book author and motivational speaker. Last year, Lois turned …
I’ve started a small interview series because there has been a surge of people having babies at the moment. I guess I am at the age where friends and family are going to be thinking about adding the extra numbers to their little gangs. It’s delightful, because parenthood does make one happy (so I can …
I met Nila during the 2013 Asian Womens Empowerment Conference in Kuala Lumpur. She is the founder of Travel Sparks Indonesia, and the all inspiring Taman Bacaan Pelangi (Rainbow Reading Gardens), a non-profit organization focuses on establishing children’s libraries in remote areas of Eastern Indonesia. Like me, she is a keen traveller and 32 countries later …
People in their environment have always intrigued me. While meeting them on my travels and taking part in festivals and cultural events form the highlights of most of my trips, I also take a lot of time people watching, observing behaviours and actions as the inhabitants of a place go about their daily routine. …
So, as you now know, that it has been a year since our formal move to the UK. While we don’t actually live in ‘London‘ proper, we do spend a load of time working, studying and entertaining in London. While having explained myself numerous times, there are still questions about what exactly what I like …
Here’s a question I’ve been asked recently: “what does living unconventionally mean to you Amy?” It was on Twitter, so I was limited to 120 characters. In short, my answer was: I think that everyone needs to be true to who they are and what they want out of life, and not to follow a path …
There was only one reason, and one reason only for my recent trip to Cardiff. Doctor Who. Go on, call me the nerd, but I am simply in love with this quirky time traveller created by the BBC and couldn’t help but make this special journey to the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff. For the show’s …
