Caz and Craig have been traveling and living around the world since 1997.
Last weekend, I completed a freelance travel writing course with the Sydney Writers Centre. It was a two day intensive course where I learned the tricks to freelance writing and was armed with many tools and strategies to help me start pitching to print publications to sell my travel stories. Why not? You can listen to the video below where I tell you why I really loved the course and
There isn’t a city I feel safer in than London. This is a result of my two years living in London, even during the time when IRA bomb scares and actual bombings were going on. On my first day in London, an announcement came on the Tube that the next station was closed due to a security alert. A security alert meaning a suspicious package had been left behind. The
Okay so how many readers have I just lost? Before you go scampering for cover from this left wing communist, you can be rest assured I am no longer affiliated with the Socialist party,or any political party for that matter. Politics and a peaceful and happy world don’t really mix. Since my short-lived time in the Socialist party, I have discovered that any one political party will never create a
You go traveling around the world and you think you are free to be yourself because no body knows who you are right? Wrong. The world is not as large as you really think, and the more you start to travel the more you realize that the world is tiny. Having unexpected encounters with people you know and random six degrees of separation experiences is not as rare as you
So you want to bea travel writer? Traveling the world, taking photographs, and writing about your experiences seems like everyone’s dream job. But do you have any idea of the realities of the career and how to even go about becoming a travel writer? Do you have the ability to write a travel article that would be appealing to the editor of travel publications? Before you answer no and run away,
Now before you get all huffy and puffy about my impeding article and the doom I am going to spread about freelance writing, take a deep breath and relax. This article is not intended to write off freelance writing, which is obviously a well-paying career for many people. This article is purely about me, and why I don’t want to write freelance. Whatever you choose to do with your life,
The surfers stand on top of the resting bench, craning their necks to look above the lantana and natural sand dune scrub to see what the waves were doing on this crisp, winter morning. I didn’t have to know them to know they had names like Ringo, Didgie, Jungle, Bull, or Weedie. I didn’t have to hear their conversation to know that as they pointed their fingers, they were asking
It is amazing who you meet in the travel blogging world. Annie and I met recently after she contacted me to tell me of a memorable experience she had traveling through my hometown Woy Woy. It is not often that travelers visit our beautiful town, bypassing it on their way from Sydney up North. I thought it was really cool, that a girl from small town Washington State had a
This piece is an assigment, written for my MatadorU Travel Writing Course. The piece is about my hometown in 500 words or less, which I found extremely difficult. Please leave feedback and suggestions in the comment box below, it will be most appreciated. “Whose shout is it?” Sam, grinning broadly, waves her empty glass in our faces, the clinking of the ice grabs our attention. “Vodka, lemon lime and bitters
As part of my first travel writing assignment for Matador U’s travel writing course, I’m posting a blog on travel writing magazine publications that I would like to have articles published in. Since I first threw on the backpack 13 years ago, I’ve dreamed of having a travel writing career but deemed it impossible through a lack of self-confidence and the misconceived notion that I needed to hold a degree
