Some of the Sight-Seeing: Buckingham Palace State Room Tour - During August and September when the Queen makes her annual trip to Scotland, the doors of Buckingham Palace open to the public. With your own hand held audio device, you can wander through 19 State Rooms admiring the incredible architecture, lavish furniture and outlook to the ...

Our first Overland Safari started on Monday 24th January with a company called Absolute Africa. We would spend the next 32 days travelling through Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania on this camping tour. Our initial group consisted of 5 Aussies, 1 Kiwi, 4 Poms, 2 Austrians and 2 Irish plus our Aussie Tour Guide, Damien and ...

At the end of 2010 China calculated the highest population in the world with a total of 1,339,724,852. When arriving in Beijing, we didn't really know what to expect but what we saw we loved. The city is huge! The streets are long and wide and due to being so busy . We noticed as well the ...

Returning from Cappadocia we arrived at Sabiha Gokcen Airport which is on the Asian side and decided to spend one more night in Istanbul before hitting the road en route to Gallipoli.

Turkey is such an enormous country so with the 10 days we had there, we had to choose just a couple of places to visit. Our First stop – the capital, Istanbul.

By the 1st June, 2011, we had been on the road for a total of 15 months. While there were still a few places we both wanted to see together, we decided to take a week apart so that Elissa could meet her Mum in New York (a part of her 60th birthday celebrations) and ...

Whilst Elissa was in New York with her mum Pete decided to go to India to see tigers in their natural environment. India is the best place in the world to find these magnificent predators.

The best place (or argubly the best) in India to find them is in Ranthambore National Park which is central-northern India, 5 hours by train, south of New Delhi. When travelling through India, especially many different areas, a lot of visitors will hire a car – with a driver – at a negotiated cost. Although this is very convenient it wasn’t necessary for me as I was only going to one place. So I caught the train. And what an experience that is…..

Elissa had organised to meet her mum Leonie in New York for a week or so and Pete, who wasn’t invited, decided to go and do something that Elissa wouldn’t probably never want to do, look for tigers in India. However when I reached Heathrow I found out that I couldn’t get a visa on arrival (New Zealanders can, but not Australian) and so instead of splending much time in London trying to obtain one I was well advised to do get it in Nepal.

We arrived in Croatia at the end of May and summer had well and truly started. Flying into Split, we met up with our friend Katherine Sherry and made our way into the Old Town (about 50min Taxi ride/300 Croatian Kuna) for one night before setting sail for a week with Sail Croatia.