Stories behind the stories. By Travel Writer, Amy McPherson
As much as I dislike the resort culture, there is something about Tenerife that keeps luring me back. Perhaps it’s the convenience of a direct flight. Perhaps it’s the warmth of the sun all year round. One thing is for sure, it definitely isn’t the resorts. I mean, they are perfectly fine, as resorts go, …
Continued from Cycling five countries: Part 1 I left you with a rest day in Dublin, where I spent most of the day walking dazed around town and hanging out with Oscar Wilde while being heavily medicated with cold and flu tablets. In a way, it was a revelation how much our bodies can take …
For me, every cycle tour begins the same way: with a fall. You read a few posts ago that I don’t particularly balance well. So cycling at a fast pace, having to deal with clipping on and off, deal with obstructions like a loose running dog or even just trying to get around curving road …
It was at the town of Skagaströnd on the north coast of Iceland where I think I tripped over some elves. I had hiked along the rocky coast for half an hour, listening to the crashing waves and the aggressive chirps of the Golden Plovers and Arctic Terns, warning me not to get close to their …
When do you know when you’ve pushed yourself to the absolute limit? Well, I finally found that out last week. Here’s the long story. I am currently on a Snowshoe and Winter Walking in Bosnia tour. We arrived on Sunday and I’ve just had two great days of snowshoe adventure. It’s harder than it looks. …
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 …
Tourists generally come to London and spend a few days battling crowds of their own kind in and around the major attractions: Westminster Abbey, the Big Ben, London Eye, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, the entire strip down Regent Street from Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Circus, maybe venture to St Paul’s, maybe nose around Soho …
I love train travel, so it’s no surprise that when we were in Russia I wasn’t going to pass on a chance to get on a Russian train! While there is an express train that we could have taken between St Petersburg and Moscow, which would have only taken a little over 4 hours, we …
Two hours train ride away from St Petersburg took us somewhere in complete contrast. Stepping out of the train we were greeted with a bland concrete station building adorned with the Soviet hammer and sickle, and image that told us that we were definitely not in imperial grounds anymore. This was Veliky Novgorod (or simply …
Wimbledon is a word that is synonymous with tennis, and is conveniently just four train stops from where I currently live. However, I am currently avoiding the area due to the crowds that have descended in the area for… well, the tennis of course. However, there is another side of Wimbledon that isn’t about tennis. Wimbledon …
I work for an international office and have colleagues all around the world. From time to time, they would come for meetings in Sydney and being the traveller of the office, I end up being the ‘go-to’ person for travelling around Sydney. And just like what I mentioned about tourist destinations, they all want to …
After our kayaking adventure yesterday we decided to check out what our guide called his ‘hidden little gem’. Bundeena, a small suburb (if you could call it a suburb) of Sydney nestled within the Royal National Park, was just around the corner. It has all the characteristic of what constitute the cliche ‘hidden gem’. It is …
Kap, little sister to the popular Sihanoukville is popular with local holiday makers. Phnom Penh’ers come here on the weekend to soak up some sun and breathe in some sea air and intrepid travellers come here to enjoys its fresh seafood. Especially the crab. In Kampot, I’ve already had a taste of the crab this …
Closer to the coast of Cambodia,is a town made famous by its peppers. Kampot peppers have drawn celebrity chefs from around the world to come and sample its flavour, some made cooking shows along the way. Unfortunately for me, I don’t have the tongue to distinguish between Kampot pepper and the average supermarket ground peppers. …
The only thing I knew of Battambang was that Maddox from the Jolie-Pitt gang came from this province, and that there is a foundation in his name for the orphans here. So I was almost expecting to see pictures of Angelina everywhere, or at least, Santa, seeing that it was Christmas day and we haven’t …
