On Saturday, I was invited along to a launch event at the rugby in Sydney for The Great Crusade. A group of Qantas marketing managers, some well-known TV-types, a few digital agency folks and a handful of bloggers all hung out in a private box sipping beers and chatting about this big promotional event. Sounds pretty fancy, hey? Well, it… Read more
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I am thinking of Thursday. I am setting foot on a plane and starting the journey to Malaysia. I am calm. I relax, try to take a nap, have a little bottle of wine and maybe read a book. I am utterly calm.
That’s when I love travel. It was mentioned in my post on epic train journeys not being … Read more
It’s a wishy-washy, love-it or hate-it tactic to saving money for travels: moving back in with the parents. It’s something that I’m in the process of doing this very second, only we’re moving in with Pat’s parents and not my own.
Since we got all the trips booked to both Malaysia and the USA… Read more to fall within May and
For the past year, Sydney Travel Tribe… Read more has been an integral part of my social calendar. Once a month, the people around Sydney that are involved in the travel industry, whether it be owners of big companies to fresh start-ups or simply travel bloggers to travelers passing through, get together once a month to hang out, have some beers and
If you asked me now what the most important part of my body is when it comes to being in good physical condition, I would have to say feet since I’ve had so many issues lately. I used to think that having a good knee was all I wanted, and the back seems to throw everything out of whack if… Read more
Do you ever get the feeling that all those cartoons and stories back in the Northern Hemisphere are true and everything in Australia does in fact run backwards? I. do.
You might want to check my post on how I live in a bilingual household.… Read more
In Australia, I’m bombarded with things that make me go, “Really?” Two years in
More about the London School in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Questions asked by readers looking for help on this Central Asian school are answered.
I sat here and looked at my blank computer screen for a few minutes, just trying to pool my thoughts so that I could make this post. I thought about how I could write this, or that, or maybe even about a fun memory or event from day 113, but all I could think about was how much I really… Read more
Does anyone else reading this find as much joy as me in just walking through foreign grocery stores? I know Cailin mentioned in a comment on my calorie counting post… Read more that the foreign labels aren’t very helpful for those tracking their daily intake, but it is for that same reason that I find the shops so much fun. I mean,
Alcohol and travel are like ice cream and cherries; they just seem to go together. However, alcohol is probably one of the quickest and easiest ways for travelers to break their budgets. It’s definitely not a necessary evil, but it is sometimes hard to resist… so what can you do?
Well, here on Thrifty Thursday, I like to point out… Read more
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