Laughing our way through Kenya
Two brothers, two sisters, ten friends, four weeks, one grand adventure through Kenya and Uganda. It all starts at Tullamarine airport, where Donna tries to smuggle...
Views fit for a chicken? Hiking in Appenzell
Sometimes in life you stumble across a view that is so spectacular, so breathtaking, you have to stop and admire it fully. Using all your senses you listen to...
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 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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Finding serenity on Ha Long Bay
It's 6am and I'm standing on top of a boat, a houseboat, in Ha Long Bay. Around me the boats are just waking up, lights slowly coming on as...