Since we were only in LA for 23 hours and we were no doubt going to be exhausted, I had booked as a hotel near the airport. It came with free transfer BUT you needed to ring on arrival to get it – something...
Since we were only in LA for 23 hours and we were no doubt going to be exhausted, I had booked as a hotel near the airport. It came with free transfer BUT you needed to ring on arrival to get it – something...
As I said in my post about travelling with an infant on a plane: how to get extra seats, I was terrified about the 15 hour flight from Melbourne to LA with a one and a three year old. I thought it was going...
This week’s Flashback Friday post is a bit different. Mainly, because it’s not Friday! That is because I have joined a blogging challenge over at Small Planet Studio to post today about...
To say that I was terrified about the 15 hour flight from Melbourne to LA with a one and a three year old would be an understatement. I was absolutely petrified that it would be the longest 15 hours...
About ten years ago, I travelled to Peru as part of a bigger round the world trip. A big question on my mind before that trip was whether to hike the Inca Trail to Macchu Picchu or not. Contents The Inca...
The following are entries from the diary I kept while hiking the Inca Trail to Macchu Picchu… Contents Day One The bus finally picked us up this morning over an hour later than promised. I can’t...
Some of you have met my constant travel companion, Fleecie. I adopted Fleecie from LA airport on my first round the world trip in 2000. Since then, she has been my constant travel companion. She has been...
We are all packed for our 10 week family trip to the US and Caribbean. It was trickier than our last trip to SE Asia as we will be there in Winter, which will be quite cold in some places we are going...
We flew to Yogyakarta for the day from Bali. It was fantastic. We visited Borobudur, the largest Buddhist temple in SE Asia, the Hindu temples of Prambanan and the Sultan’s Palace and the old part...
Our next stop on our whirlwind round the world tour was one of my favourite places in the world, Edinburgh, to celebrate the new year at one of the biggest celebrations in the world, Hogmanay. Of course,...