Stories behind the stories. By Travel Writer, Amy McPherson
My posts in the past week have been a bit grim, so I thought I’d write on a lighter topic today and talk about my second favourite animal: monkeys. (My first favourite are cats, if you haven’t figured that out already ;-)) I was born in the Chinese zodiac year of the monkey and so …
Are you a bush (or forest for those who use different terminologies!) or beach person? I admit, while I do love the ocean, enjoy a good scuba dive and have a fascination about the marine life, I am more of a bush person. To me, while the beaches make great backdrop to a holiday photo, …
I am not much of a sea-farer. So far, most of my water based travel have been on passenger ferries and scuba boats. I believe my very first experience with water travel was on a family holiday in Hawaii, where we boarded a small submarine to view the fish and corals. I think I was …
It’s the weekend! How has your week been? Are you ready to rest up to tak on another week of adventures? adventure [ad·ven·ture]: an unusual and exciting or daring experience; excitement associated with danger or taking of risks; engage in daring or risky activity. The Mighty Everest was thought to be the ultimate adventure, no one …
I have spent the past three days in Australia’s western frontier – Perth. We arrived on Saturday, after an early four hours something flight that was both extremely uncomfortable and long for a domestic flight. Being caged in a giant metal tin 32,000 feet in the air for hours and hours is my least favourite …
To me, there is no experience so enriching, so challenging and so exciting as to travel. My travel experiences are what continue to make me who I am. Of course, not everyone share the same curiosity for other people’s cultures and traditions, and not everyone has the same reasons to travel. I will however, share …
Throughout my travels I find the conversations I’ve had with cab drivers the most interesting of all. All throughout the world, taxi drivers come from all walks of life, and they are often the people to speak to when you want to know the city’s darkest secrets. While I have enjoyed many interesting and thought …
Do you realise we talk more about things going wrong than about the parts of our holidays where everything was going according to plan? I do. Every time we have a conversation about our trips, every time we reminisce on the details of our journeys, we always end up talking about the time when the bus …
I love reading, always have, and ever since I got the travel bug, travel books have started to overtake the fiction in numbers on my bookshelves. I enjoy reading other people’s tales and stories, their discoveries and adventures as well as the horrors of things going wrong that often accompany any good trip. Out of …
While travelling around Cambodia I noticed a particular “tourism” campaign that locals were feeling strongly about: Many tourists who visit developing and third world countries somehow have this urge to want to visit an orphanage as part of their sightseeing activities. They won’t call it sightseeing, and you’ll find these people coming home boasting about …
On my way to work this morning I was thinking about what else I can do with Footprints and Memories other than post news and stories about travel. I thought about the quote I’ve based the website on – “take only memories, leave nothing but footprints” – and really considered what it means to travellers. …
Did you know, that the word souvenir is French, and it means ‘to remember’? We all bring souvenirs home, and these are the items that provide most of the tourism dollars to many of this world’s locals who rely on our need to bring something home. Souvenirs now come in all different forms, shapes, ideas and …
There are people who are quite happy working, living life and staying put, never set foot on another city, let alone a country. They are loyal to their friends, their family and most importantly, their comfortable lifestyle of never changing routines. And then, there are people who are constantly on the go, never happy with …
I am not weird. I just like to step out of the usual tourist attractions and seek for that special something about a place. So I found a hobby – I visit the dead. It’s not just me. A lot of people are doing it as part of their search into someone else’s life. Some …
