Stories behind the stories. By Travel Writer, Amy McPherson
At the top of the ridge at the Quiraing Walk on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, I stopped breathing for a couple of seconds. From where I stood, I could trace the route we took across the valley, which expands all the way to the ocean, where the silvery blue sea met the blue …
Happy New Year. I hope you’ve all had a chance to rest, reflect and plan. It is after all, a brand new year for brand new adventures! I haven’t got much time. I’ve just picked up another contract until the end of May, (because someone needs to pay the bills) so back to work on …
Before my trip to Ireland, I also paid a visit to Dubrovnik and surrounds in Croatia. However due to the tight timing of my trips (with only one week between Croatia and Ireland) with a deadline for the story, I couldn’t tell you about this trip until now. Up to this year, I’ve never visited …
Well, now that I’ve written my official story I needed to write for In The Know Traveler I thought I’d enlighten you with a more personal account of the trip, written in the style of previous post about lusting over Switzerland and romance with Vorarlberg. (In other words, you know some cheesiness is coming!) READ: Spell …
Switzerland may have been an affair that filled me with lust, with its toned muscles and sultry stare (sorry, now that I’ve written it, I can’t get that image of Channing Tatum out of my head!) — it was Vorarlberg that filled me with warm and fuzzy emotions, like the boy next door you never …
Isle of where? You ask. The Isle of Man, a small island wedged between the shores of north England and Ireland, is a crown dependency. It means, it is technically a country, with its own parliament, its own laws and government, but is still in the possession of the British Crown and relies on Britain …
I am going to take you back to the days when the world was still black and white – at the movies I mean – and have you check out this film: Brief Encounter. A station made famous by Brief Encounter It’s one of those oh-so-sad, oh-so-romantic and oh-so-tragic love stories that probably won’t get much …
This year is a big year for England’s literature greats. Widely celebrated is Shakespeare400 both in Stratford upon Avon and in London, to commemorate the 400th year after his death on the 23 April. However there is one other literary master who also died on this day 234 years after Shakespeare – William Wordsworth. As …
How beautiful was the weather on the weekend?! I can tell you during our trip up north 2 weeks ago it was a completely different story…. Apparently I was mad when I booked a trip up north at this time of the year. “It’s just going to rain the entire time!” Rain, I can …
Whitby, a small seaside town surrounded by the North York Moors National Park, is significant to Australia as a modern nation. It was here that Captain James Cook trained as a seaman, who then took on a voyage to map out new worlds and claimed Australia as one of the British colonies in 1770. 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 …
Wanting to explore the region where we live, I jumped on Google Maps (what else) and looked for places and areas of interest in Surrey. Being Google, it knew my strong preferences to places with lots of nature and walking trails so immediately pin pointed the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Beauty on the map. …
It’s first of March! It’s first day of Spring! Well, for the northern hemisphere anyway, and it has been warmly welcomed. Not that winter had been all that bad. Apparently it was the sunniest winter in England for 90 years. Sunniest! Can you believe it? And they say winter in England is horrible. I had …
At first, I was lured here by the romantic images of hot mineral baths from the tourism board of the region. For me, Daylesford had been just that, a place where I can get some soaking in a giant bathtub as well as indulge in expensive day spa treatments. What I didn’t realise, is that …
Noosa on the Sunshine Coast is almost like what I remember from years ago, it is still a holiday paradise with soft waves clashing on the clean sands of Main Beach, and the calm gentle river that feeds inland that is so relaxing to look at. The only difference is that shops and restaurant are …
Several years ago a friend and I wanted to visit the Great Ocean Road, knowing that it was a great strip of coast hugging highway. We pulled out a map, traced the route with our fingers and found our eyes wandering off the sides… while the Great Ocean Road was the main attraction, we became …
Well, I am glad the world didn’t end, as we’ve been having so much fun since the 21 Dec and have had some fantastic experiences out in the countryside of Cambodia since. Tonle Sap, the heartbeat of Cambodia as the locals call it, accommodates many communities that relies on the lake for its water and …
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Extract from ” I wandered lonely as a cloud” by William Wordsworth, 1888. The mist opens …
The historic Hahndorf is the oldest surviving German settlement in Australia. A mere twenty-minutes drive south east from Adelaide in South Australia, Hahndorf is among one of the favourite destinations for locals to escape the hustle bustle of the city, to enjoy a weekend afternoon browsing through the many boutique and craft shops, or to …
