If you are considering a move to Salt Lake City in the USA, chances are you’ve been wondering about what types of neighbourhoods will be available to you. If you are making the move cross country, or just trekking across the US with a view to enjoying the “local lifestyle”, it’s critical that you know the Read more about The 6 Best Neighborhoods in Salt Lake City, USA[…]
When I googled for hostels in East Timor, only one came up and it’s no wonder – there only is one hostel in the entire country! But mind you – that’s one more than North Korea! So naturally I stayed in the ONLY backpackers hostel in East Timor, known as East Timor Backpackers in Dili. Read more about Staying at the ONLY Backpackers Hostel in East Timor: East Timor Backpackers, Dili[…]
It’s been a while since I did a Tuesday’s Travel Essential and while it’s been a slow week in East Timor, this one is overdue. Saving money on paper? Me being “green”? Well, kind of a new thing really…decades have passed since people started talking about going paperless and the whole “green travel, green world” Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Save Money On Paper, Take Photos of Things Instead[…]
My most recent backpacking trip took me to East Timor, also known as Timor Leste. This place only became a country in 2002 which was one of the reasons that intrigued me to it. Another reason is that it completed my “South East Asia on a Shoestring Lonely Planet book” finally in terms of actual countries, Read more about How to Get an East Timor Visa On Arrival at Dili Airport[…]
On my backpacking travels, I’ve done a lot of “walking on walls”, “crossing borders” and “climbing fences”. So here’s a quirky backpacking list of my Top 10 fences, walls or borders – whatever you want to call them. As humans we have felt the need to build walls to “keep out the foreigners” (copyright Paul Read more about My Top 10 Fences, Walls and Physical Borders From My Travels[…]
It is my delight to welcome Annette White to my World Travellers series. Annette runs a really cool and inspiring site called Bucket List Journey, which details all the things that Annette ticks off and adds on to her ever growing adventures. Annette is also one of the few travellers in this series who I Read more about World Travellers: Annette White from Bucket List Journey[…]
Today on Friday’s Featured Food it’s the turn of seafood. I admit I’m not a big fan of seafood and despite the fact I’ve tried hundreds of dishes from the sea, if given the choice, I’ll always side with pork or beef ahead of any type of fish or seafood. But now and then my Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Cheese Oysters in Tai O, Hong Kong[…]
I took advantage of my Australian Working Holiday Visas, using my first and second year options and loved my time living in the land down under. There were many more highs than there were lows when I lived there, but one incident really had me furious and wanting to hunt down the culprit and $hit Read more about The Night Some A$$hole Burgled Our Flat in Parramatta, Australia[…]