Posts/Entries
All posts/entries, for now, from over two decades of global travel. And a few colourful tags, too.
Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
The North Island's Tourism Hotbed, A Rotten Egg-Smelling Geothermal Wonderland Of Geysers & Bubbling Mud Pools Silver Fern. Hell’s Gate Geothermal Reserve, Rotorua, New Zealand. May 5, 2012 The tourist hotbed of New Zealand's North Island, Rotorua sits on the...
Port Waikato, North Island, New Zealand
I was hankering for a bit of downtime after my tear around New Zealand's Northland. A bit of R&R before bidding the coast adieu & driving inland to the thermal centre of the North Island was called for. But where? Port Waikato sounded viable. It was. And then...
Northland, North Island, New Zealand
A pictorial look at some of the natural attractions of the rugged, sparsely populated, far-flung Northland of New Zealand’s North Island.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
I'm just about to bid adieu, for now, to Australia. I'm sitting in the departures lounge of Melbourne airport waiting for a flight to Auckland, New Zealand. Melbourne, a city embraced by artists & the bohemian types, is the 2nd most populous city in Australia...
Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia
The Great Ocean Road, a 2 hour drive west of Melbourne in the southern Australian state of Victoria, is an Australian National Heritage listed 243-kilometre (151 mi) stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia. The road, built by returned soldiers...
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Brisbane, Australia
The weird & wonderful Australian wildlife of the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary outside Brisbane, the largest sanctuary of its kind in the world.
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
I've just spent an enjoyable day walking around Brisbane, the capital and largest city in Queensland & Australia's third largest city. Safe to say Brisbane isn't exactly a tourism hotbed - it doesn't really boast many, if any, must-see attractions - but all that...
Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia
I spent the past weekend in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, a beach side town famous for surfing (of course), hippies & Cape Byron, the most easterly point of mainland Australia. I'd been to Byron before (almost 9 years ago to the day) so it was nice to...
The Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
It’s the end of my forth day back in Australia. I'm in Kuluin, on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. I'm sitting here drinking goon. It’s not bad. Not bad at all. According to Urban Dictionary goon is, Cheap wine. Often comes in a 4 Litre Cask for around $10...
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
It’s hard to know what to say about the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur (KL, as a totally pointless observation, Malaysia sure does love to abbreviate). I should have more to say than I do, at least as a comparative – I was here 9 years ago but really can’t remember...
Singapore
To Singapore With Love, Oh Singapore. A utopia is what you are to me. I have nothing but good things to say about you. Some people might call you dull, maybe even sterile, but what do they know? Yes, you’re predictable - everyone knows you have some rather draconian...
Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
One hundred forty-one kilometres per hour. No wait... one hundred forty-three.... no, no... one hundred thirty-nine.... yep... yep, holding steady at one hundred thirty-nine. That, according to the on-screen speedometer in front of me, is the speed I'm presently...
Penang, Malaysia
Penang in Malaysia is a 3-hour ferry ride south through the Andaman Sea from the duty-free island of Langkawi. Ceded to the British in 1791, today Penang's UNESCO-listed capital of George Town is a bustling city of contrasts – wide, modern streets run parallel to a...
Langkawi, Malaysia
It’s 5 p.m. on... on... just checking... on Thursday. It’s my second day on this my second trip to Malaysia. I'm on Pentai Cenang, a 2 kilometre beach on the west coast of the Malaysian duty-free island of Palau Langkawi, which itself is just off the northwestern...