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WORLDWIDE | Thu, 5 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [135962] | Comments [103]
Do you want to be a published travel writer?
Go on assignment to Tokyo with Rough Guides!
Kick start your travel writing career by going on assignment to Tokyo, Japan. After touching base with your travel writing mentor, ... Read more >
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Fri, 8 Sep 2006 | By ears-donna | Views [5685] | Comments [1]
Did you ever see that Brady bunch episode with the really big tarantula. Well think big and hairy spider like that then make it bigger!!!! I went out to feed the dog and in the laundry passageway was a great big black tarantula.... I was more surprised ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4898] | 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 >
SWEDEN | Tue, 22 Jan 2008 | By arollingstone | Views [3730] | Comments [1]
After seven years away, I returned to my first overseas home away from home: Stockholm, Sweden. I still remember the first time I went to Sweden, in January 2000. I took a week off from school to go with my parents to house hunt and check out the schooling ... Read more >
Tags: 2008 sweden stockholm
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 3 Feb 2011 | By OffTheBeatenPath | Views [3718]
It's been three months since I
bathe in a dream that had captivated me and recalled me back ten years later. I
was madly in love in May 2000 - my ideal ignited by the Olympic torch, floating
in my new world inhabited by strange creatures: Australian ... Read more >
Tags: australia, beaches, bondi beach, dreams, itineraries, love, sydney, travel
NORWAY | Thu, 28 Aug 2008 | By romsterrom | Views [2556]
I
got up at the crack of dawn (ok – the vacation version) to catch
the 8:40 train to Voss where i would begin the much touristed “Norway
in a Nutshell” package trip. I wasn't thrilled at the prospect of
taking my “backpack”, ... Read more >
NEPAL | Fri, 23 Feb 2007 | By globalld | Views [2527]
Happy Losar! Or as the Tibetans would say TASHI LOSAR. It was an eventful few weeks here at Pullahari as the monks prepared for the new year with practice and Pujas. The most ceremonial was the Mahakala puja and finale fire, which I have included many ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
PERU | Thu, 2 Dec 2010 | By sobrea | Views [2279] | Comments [2]
Lomo saltado anyone? I feel like I haven’t written a blog in
a minute…guess I have been too distracted eating all the amazing Peruvian food!
Sophia left off in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Which was great, all of Ecuador really
was, from there, it was ... Read more >
Tags: ganoza, los organos, mancora, mario, ruins, surfing, takaynamo hotel, temple de la luna, trujillo
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Mon, 24 Sep 2012 | By treefrog | Views [1870]
I have been fortunate to have some lovely
Russian students and befriended a couple, Alexander and Anastasia. They invited
me to come and visit them at their holiday house just outside of Moscow.
So I took Friday off work and went ... Read more >
Tags: janaline smalman, moscow, russia, sauna, tarusa, travel
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 | By silverlady | Views [1650]
After two days sitting comfortably in Newcastle the weather was looking a lot better. I made a decision to give up rough weather unless i get caught out there unexpectedly. with my new philosophy on cruising being that i dont have plans, i dont ... Read more >
GREECE | Mon, 26 Sep 2011 | By vagabonds | Views [1611]
No, the circus hadn’t come to town. In fact, there is no town. A tent has covered the Temple of Apollo at Bassai for 15 years
to protect it from frost and the elements while it is being restored. This is the most remote sanctuary in
mainland ... Read more >
CANADA | Fri, 23 Mar 2012 | By jamesshanks | Views [1543]
Waking up to the sound of an alarm this morning was somewhat foreign. It's been a few weeks of just rolling out of bed whenever I please, but today was different! At 6am I launched myself out of bed, ate my newly discovered super granola (YUMMM!) and ... Read more >
Tags: ferry, millenium series, nanaimo, quiet, vancouver island
THAILAND | Tue, 31 Mar 2015 | By homeless_harry | Views [1441]
A holiday isn't really over until you are back on home soil, but Bangkok is as close to home as it gets, geographically and sentimentally. It is very familiar territory and a great place to unwind and transition back into the Broome heat of my real home ... Read more >
Tags: bangkok, friends, home, tattoo
KENYA | Thu, 27 Oct 2011 | By klnjaa | Views [1381]
The night bus to Mombasa was long but pretty uneventful. We
arrived in Mombasa at 5:30 on Friday morning. There were a couple stops that we
were able to get off at, and unfortunately after receiving poor advice from our
in bus stewardess we got ... Read more >
GUATEMALA | Sun, 17 Jun 2007 | By moley | Views [1293] | Comments [1]
In a small wee town called Flores Gautemala. Yesterday Jo and I decided to swim in the lake outside the hotel. We sat in the water which was teeming with fish and looked across the further bank. It was beautiful, the sun was shining and we were in ... Read more >
Tags: Laughter
PERU | Wed, 10 Sep 2014 | By 7dayadventurer | Views [1126]
The Hotel, Antigua Mirafores, has a kind of old colonial hacienda look to it, perhaps more accurately I might say, estancia , as its probably not big enough to be considered a hacienda. Old it is, but it is in good shape and looks like it's ... Read more >
HUNGARY | Thu, 9 Aug 2012 | By macedonboy | Views [1042]
I didn't have to get up too early today as much of the day was going to be "taken care of". The Budapest Card comes with 2 free walking tours, one for the Pest and the other for Buda. Pest I already saw yesterday, so today, I wanted to ... Read more >
Tags: buda castle, budapest, concert, hungary, walking tour
LEBANON | Sun, 15 Jan 2017 | By krodin | Views [981]
Beirut and Beyond
Lebanon and Beirut, the former ‘Paris of the Middle East’, have long held a special fascination for me. A temperate city on the sea backed by mountains with a fascinating culture and deep history ... Read more >
Tags: archeological site, city visit, museums
NEW ZEALAND | Thu, 6 Oct 2011 | By deepsouthrugby | Views [960]
Martinborough is a little Kiwi town an hour east of Wellington over a winding mountain road surrounded by vineyards, olive groves, sheep pastures, and a wild Pacific coastline. The town was laid out by an Irish settler named Martin in the 1800’s ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Mon, 15 Oct 2012 | By howigotmyshrunkenhead | Views [782] | Comments [2] | Video
I first heard of the Rio de Janeiro Film Scholarship in September whilst visiting my family in Basque Country after 4 months working in Peru. I immeadiately thought of Nuno, my brother from another mother. I first met Nuno five years ago as we both made ... Read more >
Tags: bubble, bubbles, eastern europe, operation groundswell, peru, street performer, travelling, united kingdom
UNITED KINGDOM | Mon, 25 May 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [762]
I spent a quick night in London in a hotel. As you probably know by now, if I am staying at a Marriott, Hilton, etc, it is by accident. I can't afford those places so mine are much more economincal. (plus the UK is expensive period). And after ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Wed, 29 Nov 2006 | By mikey | Views [565]
It started out as a mere dream in a young man's head! Well, it finally became time for that dream to be realized...
Tags: The Planning Phase
THAILAND | Wed, 17 Jul 2013 | By chicagoguy | Views [529]
Bangkok, Thailand – Another lazy day dedicated to planning the final days here in Thailand. I did the tourist thing and took an afternoon cruise through the canals here in Bangkok. I was fortunate enough to get the Thai version of ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Sun, 16 Oct 2016 | By vincek | Views [374]
So training has been going pretty well.Considering i live in Brisbane and a tropical climate it makes aclimitisation a little difficult,where the average temperature in Brisbane is about 26˚ with a drastic difference at the summit with an average of ... Read more >
USA | Wed, 12 Nov 2014 | By karenleslieburns | Views [324]
We left Delhi early before sunrise to catch the 6am train to Agra for our day trip to see the Taj Mahal. Arriving at Delhi railway station we stepped out into a sea of people, street food vendors, cars, rickshaws, tuk-tuk's and motorcycles and ... Read more >