The car is getting packed and we are about to pull out of the driveway. We’re off on a longer family holiday. We travel a lot and lately it has been short trips and family weekend getaways. That has been all we have been able to manage with work, time and financial commitments. An opportunity [...]

This is a sponsored post by Peregrine Adventures Most of our travel has been done independently. We enjoy the freedom and thrill that comes with forging your own path and having the flexibility to change it whenever you feel it fits. We do, however, feel that guided tours are sometimes a beneficial and rewarding way [...]

This post is by Susan from Travel Junkette Ask a backpacker what their favorite South American country is, and many will say Colombia. To heck with South America, it’s one of my favorite continents in the world. Once skipped by most travelers due to its reputation as dangerous and drug-infested, Colombia has changed and is [...]

January was a quiet month. After my hospitalization and surgeries just before Christmas I needed it to be. Life is so cool sometimes. Not because of my surgeries, but because the rest period came exactly when I needed. Right after the manic travel finished last year when I became ill. I’m going to be writing [...]

All I had ever heard about Rotorua before was that it was smelly. Smelly is right. The sulphurous vapour rises up your nostirils with each street corner you turn. Your nose slightly twitches upward in distaste before you pause to ponder the familiarity of the stench. Rotten egg or… … ten years being married to Craig Poor [...]

There’s a place that Craig and I often love to visit when we travel. Actually even when we don’t. We get really excited when we come across one. Actually we can smell the ink emanating from the pages that holds all their mystery and wisdom about a mile away. I think our love for them [...]

Thinking of visiting Australia either as a tourist, backpacker, or on a working holiday visa? Exotic and exciting adventures await you in Australia, with our outdoor lifestyle, beautiful beaches, and friendly multi-cutural society. There are a few things you might want to know before you get here. Here are some of the best and worst [...]

Moscow is a city of vivid and expressive colors. From golden cathedral domes glinting in the evening sun, to the crimson towers of the Kremlin Wall looming over Red Square, this massive city makes for an intoxicating visual journey. Traditionally, Moscow has been regarded as an exotic, enigmatic, and powerful metropolis, with this notion being [...]

In today’s Friday Five segment of our World Travel podcast we discuss Five Notorious or Notable Prisons Around the World that we have visited. Tune in to hear our experiences of 1. Robben Island- Cape Town South Africa 2. Alcatraz-San Francisco, USA 3. Dachau Concentration Camp- Munich Germany 4. Security Prison 21- Phnom Penh, Cambodia [...]

We have decided to start our very own Travel Podcast! Why? because we are crazy! Yes, we love doing all this extra work. No…it was just an idea we had pushed onto us by a friend’s recommendation. Actually, we had a lot of ideas we wanted to put into practice via video, and video was [...]