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WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4907] | Comments [4]
Anna Zhu, winner of our Photography Scholarship is getting ready for Antarctica. She has received her Antarctica weather gear from Columbia which she had fun trying on in Sydney's mini heat wave. She has also chosen some new equipment from ... Read more >
USA | Fri, 8 Feb 2008 | By all_powered_up | Views [2214]
Da-da da-da daaaa-da, da-da da-da daaaa Hawaii five-o? - no? I never originally thought I'd reach here on this trip, i wasn't even sure I'd make it here after catching my flight from New Zealand to Sydney (bizarrely it was cheaper to go this route).... Read more >
Tags: island, volcano
JORDAN | Sat, 14 Jan 2017 | By krodin | Views [1868]
Moses, Monuments and Mosaics – A Journey Through Jordan
The Queen Alia International Airport lies about 30km south of Amman. I picked up the rental car, which was conveniently located inside the terminal and headed south to Madaba, ... Read more >
Tags: archeological site, city visit, museums
PERU | Fri, 26 Oct 2012 | By kamzam | Views [1718]
I didn’t do justice to Arequipa. I only stayed there for one night but I really like the city. It was themost charming place I’ve seen since Cuenca. For me however it was a launching pod to Colca Canyon. In Arequipa I reunited with ... Read more >
Tags: arequipa, canyon colca, inka ruins, machu picchu, salkantay, trekking
ITALY | Tue, 29 Aug 2017 | By davidpearlman | Views [1367]
After the magnicient time at the mansion dining and walking around the gardens, the group from the ship largely dispersed. Many took the boat back to Portfofino and spent time there-others went back to the ship. I took a walk around the quaint village ... Read more >
CANADA | Mon, 6 Jul 2009 | By true-claims-stories | Views [1250]
I was on the first day of my ski vacation, walking out to the shuttle that takes you to the mountain. The driveway was snow-covered and icy, so it wasn’t surprising that I fell and twisted my left ankle and couldn’t ski the whole weekend. ... Read more >
Tags: ankle injuries, insurance claim, ski vacation, skiing, travel insurance, true claim stories, world nomads
AUSTRIA | Sat, 3 May 2014 | By mattso | Views [1158]
We landed in the capital of Tirol after a train-bus-train shuffle from Villach, but even this inconvenience was carried out super-efficiently and offered a different look at the country. The snow-capped mountains came closer the nearer we got to ... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing
BOTSWANA | Sun, 18 Jun 2006 | By jane-of-the-jungle | Views [1031] | Comments [3]
On
the banks of the grey, green, greasy, Limpopo River, beloved, that self same
river where the elephant child got his trunk, Kipling could have written a
sequel about How Joe and Jane of the Jungle became 2 large human Frisbees after
being ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
SWITZERLAND | Wed, 22 Sep 2010 | By dentedileone | Views [867]
A bunch of friends, we said. So let's see WHO's WHO: Madeleine & Bjorn, Swedish, they live and work in Zurich. Madeleine collects 4000 peaks, Bjorn takes it easy. Francesca & Filippo: both Italians, also living and working around Zurich. When ... Read more >
Tags: friends, fun
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 15 Sep 2016 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [836]
Disappointed in myself that I’ve written nothing of late, I decided to give myself something to write about: a journey to the world’s most beautiful island. Every year for my birthday I like to shout myself a journey to someplace special.... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wed, 27 May 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [831]
When I was on the 3 day tour in the Scottish Highlands, a guy on the tour told me to go to Bath-so that is what I did. I checked out of my hotel in Salisbury, and went to Bath, a town an hours train ride from Salisbury. First of all, Salisbury ... Read more >
USA | Mon, 28 Nov 2011 | By julie_bien | Views [827] | Video
Yep, here's the full 4:30min rough cut you've all been waiting for. Because I know you all do nothing but anxiously wait until my next post. Right? Hmmmm.... There probably won't be any new rough cuts for awhile because I need to go back to focusing ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thu, 13 Sep 2007 | By jamie_candice | Views [826] | Comments [5]
Finally we have a place to call home for 6 months, our first time living together. We have two bedrooms, room for guests and a little back yard. Its very small compared to back home, but it is the biggest place we had looked at here. The last unit ... Read more >
Tags: Work
NEPAL | Sun, 7 Oct 2007 | By tim_and_sam | Views [826]
So, we've arrived in Kathmandu after a brief stop in Delhi. The highlight of the new Jet Airways flight from London was an excellent curry, the downside was an interesting choice of Kenny G muzak for the entire flight. Delhi was Delhi, just a lot more ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Mon, 17 Nov 2014 | By hadizaher | Views [809]
Papua New Guinea is a culturally rich, ethnically diverse, remote and often forgotten corner of the world.
While on a work trip to work in far north PNG, I had the opportunity to explore a few corners the capital Port Moresby, and a few villages on ... Read more >
Tags: forgotten, guinea, highlands, island, manus, new, papua, png, world
USA | Sat, 9 May 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [755] | Comments [2]
Here it is-the gate on this exiciting day. As you can see there is even a woman in an orange coat.
MOROCCO | Sun, 17 Jun 2007 | By instantsdevoyage | Views [679]
Nous voilà maintenant arrivés à Agadir, toujours sur la cote atlantique et aux portes du désert. Nous avons profité de nos derniers jours de civilisation en nous perdant dans le labyrinthe des ruelles de la médina d'Essaouira. Des babouches, des bijoux ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
DENMARK | Sat, 12 Apr 2014 | By leifr | Views [666]
“Man, you are so weird.”
This was the rather dispiriting response from Kim, my new Danish flatmate, after telling him that I would be spending the coming year in Denmark trying to master his native tongue. Unfortunately, similar remarks ... Read more >
Tags: danish, denmark, language
GREECE | Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By gelly | Views [662]
London -Iiii is a journal that hosts photographs from my latest trip in London.
My personal view of London is about the architectural model that is applyied on buildings and new developments, that are used to accommodate housing and/or offices.... Read more >
Tags: architecture, buildings, life in london, london, people, working people
BOLIVIA | Wed, 12 Feb 2014 | By lucasamorelli | Views [634]
Nunca gostei de planejar e nesta viagem não foi diferente. Uma semana antes de sair de férias, mudei meu destino e fui para Bolívia . Não fiz a mínima questão de ficar pesquisando hoté... Read more >
Tags: américa do sul, desert, deserto, mochilão, salar, south america, travel, trip, viagem, yunni
VIETNAM | Thu, 24 Mar 2011 | By tweber | Views [598]
Wednesday, I took a
tour to the Cao Dai Temple and the Cu Chi tunnels. It was quite a contrast to go to the temple in the morning
and then the tunnels in the afternoon, but they do that due to proximity of
each other. The Cao Dai temple ... Read more >
TURKEY | Wed, 26 Dec 2012 | By piglet | Views [542]
I'm now starting a few short blurbs on my culinary explorations in Istanbul. After all, for those of you who know me, food has been as much a focal point of the journey as has more cerebral pursuits. In fact, one of the highlights of ... Read more >
USA | Sun, 26 Oct 2014 | By dinagosse | Views [519]
As this trip quickly approaches, (We leave in the morning!!) I keep thinking about my general and all-comsuming love of all things travel. I think about my last trips, and my blinders-on approach to making sure they happened. I think about ... Read more >
Tags: leaving home
USA | Tue, 8 Jan 2013 | By coati2012 | Views [451]
I have been planning my trip for several months and am now sorting out how to develop this blog. I'm not a clever or creative writer thus several friends suggested that I make a list of topics to cover while traveling. I think I will include ... Read more >
Tags: draft itinery
FRANCE | Tue, 5 Oct 2010 | By romina | Views [428]
Arrived in Paris 23rd Sept from Sydney via Bangkok and London. I thought I was fine, but eventually reached the apartment with a migraine, heavy & tired body and soon ended up with food poisoning. After dropping off our backpacks at the apartment, ... Read more >