Cruising through Alaska
I'm not really a boat person - it's not the boat so much as the water. That whole being in water where I can't tour the bottom fills me...
Exploring the relics of Polonnaruwa
Polonnaruwa - yep, another UNESCO World Heritage listed site - is a vast maze of ruins dating back to before 1070AD. It is the second most Ancient city in...
What it’s like to volunteer at a school in Africa
I found this post difficult to write - one of the hardest I've written so far. How do you describe the feelings, the emotion, the experience of volunteering in...
Feeling the beauty in Mungo National Park
Well that escalated quickly. Day two of our trip around Australia and we were headed for Mungo National Park. It all started well enough, we stopped...
This is what it’s like to host tours
I've just come back from Vietnam where I was lucky enough to be hosting a tour with Two's a Crowd. It's my second time to Vietnam in 12 months....
Finding travel magic in Africa
Imagine looking into the eyes of a gorilla, or seeing leopards and lions in their natural environment. As Julia Morgan says, it's a magical experience that you'll never forget.
Whistlestop tour of the USA
We have done quite a bit of travel, but this was our first time in the US. Neither of us has ever been particularly interested in travelling to the...
The tea fields of Kandy
It could be one of my favourite views in the world - certainly in Sri Lanka - the tea plantations at Kandy took my breath away. The drive up...
Searching for lions in Uganda
Uganda is a country with a troubled past, it still suffers under the cloud of the Idi Amin years and for many of us the movie, the Last King...
The tranquillity of Inle Lake
The boat ride to our hotel took about an hour and a half - Inle Lake is much larger than I had anticipated. But it has some of the...