What are your Must See Places Before You Die? It’s a common questions asked by thousands of travellers, students, 9 to 5 workers and many more. I’ve been asked it many times since setting off to travel but to be honest, I’ve never had a good answer. It’s not for lack of wanting to see the world, I’ve just never been able to pick just a few destinations that I absolutely must […]
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My First Visit To America – Palm Beach
With my visit to America already having taken in Miami and Fort Lauderdale the Visit Florida road trip thundered down the highway towards Palm Beach and our hotel for the night, the Omphoy Ocean Resort. With the water just meters from the resorts door (see above for image snapped from my bedroom window) it was easy to see Florida is all about the sun, sand and water. In Palm Beach […]
Driving The Great Ocean Road
I’ve seen and heard many a story of locals and tourists driving the Great Ocean Road but in all my years I’d never taken the time to do it myself. Terrible I know considering I lived just a couple of hours drive away. Having already written about my time at Cape Otway I figured it was time to show you the rest of the experience. As anybody who’s undertaken the […]
Career Advice from Travelling
Career advice from travelling? I know what your thinking but go with me on this for a minute there’s a message in here. Some people look at travel and the people who do it and think WOW aren’t they lucky. Their off seing the Eiffel Tower in Paris, floating around in the Dead Sea or just enjoying a beer somewhere famous and you can’t help but be jealous of them. It’s […]
Spending Time in Istanbul
Spending time in Istanbul should be on everyone’s travel itineraries as they map out travels around the world. I stopped in earlier this year with good mate Justin while in Turkey to attend the Anzac Day Memorial Service at Gallipoli and wish I’d had more time to devote to Istanbul. Before our arrival I was in essence ignorant about the city and country bar my knowledge of the war that […]
My First Visit To America – Alligators and Fort Lauderdale
Having enjoyed a couple of days living the high life in Miami on my visit to America it was time to head for the next destination in Fort Lauderdale. Besides the fact we were heading for an airboat tour in the Everglades I was looking forward to cruising the roads in the muscle cars we had for the week (once a car loving guy always a car loving guy). The […]