Tag Archives: travel You can’t beat the Sapphire Coast of NSW, Australia on a sunny day! As regular visitors to these pages know, I live in a beautiful corner of the world – but, I tend to get lazy when I’m at home and not venture any further than my own boardwalk along Curalo Lake in Eden, (eg: […]  I had to keep pinching myself! Santorini lives up to its hype. This southernmost island in the Greek Cyclades is probably the country’s most-visited island. Rightly known for its extraordinary natural beauty, it is a popular travel destination for people the world over. It was certainly on my bucket list! Of course, the downside of […]  You are never far from water on Haida Gwaii. This collection of around 150 islands in northwestern British Columbia (BC), Canada is home to the people of the Haida Nation – and has been for at least 13,000 years. The archipelago sits between 55 and 125 km (34 and 78 mi) from the BC mainland to the […]  Any visitor to these pages knows I love markets. So, on my first day in Srinagar, the largest city and summer capital of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India, I was in my element. The itinerary had us walking through various old streets and markets. I was travelling with a small group of […]  Don’t panic! Doom Island, also spelled Dum, and pronounced /dɒm/, actually means “island with many fruit trees” in the language of the Malamooi, the local indigenous people. This small island sits a half a degree south of the equator, just about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) away from mainland Sorong, the largest city and capital of […] |
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