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How often did I get the advice to take a taxi to be safe. It started as a teen, because we didn’t have a car I often took the last bus home, and walked the last 20 minutes. When I went overseas again I had the well-meaning, but un-aware, advise me to make sure I…

Living at the arse-end of the civilized world – New Zealand – if you love to travel you end up being pretty familiar with the going airfare rates to get out of here! New Zealand has had one of the most appalling summers on record. I don’t think Wellington hit 25C all “summer” – it…

It’s World Health Day today and their theme is ageing and health. My theme is ageing and travel!  Maybe because I’ve just turned 50 the topic is something I’ve been thinking about recently! In fact more than that – I’ve actually been making quite a big effort to lose some weight. Why? Because I do…

Yesterday I talked about how very, very few of us can travel for ever – even those of us who have the ultimate job flexibility of working for ourselves.  Maybe its just me – but I picked my first career because it would take me to interesting places (geology) and my second one so that…

I read a rather sad post the other day over at Nomadic Matt’s – This is Where the Journey Ends  Matt has been travelling, pretty much continuously, for as he puts it 68 months. Now he’s quiting – or so he thinks. Actually I salute his stamina – I’ve never travelled continuously for more than…

Although I will happily travel to see snow – I hate the cold and wet winters of New Zealand. So time to book a holiday to the tropics – and Samoa is our most likely destination this year. Now Samoa is a destination growing in popularity with New Zealanders so I’ve been keeping an eye…

Reading the Sunday paper’s travel supplement my eye was caught by the “Deal of the Week” by a well-known high street travel agency. Phuket FROM $1339 for 8 days share twin.  What caught my eye – was that the dates to travel included the same dates as we are travelling to Thailand, indeed to Phuket, next…

When I first started traveling  the only way you could book an overseas hotel was either via your travel agent or directly with a very expensive overseas fax or by a via slow  mail correspondence  (not email!). The major problem for me was that the price of a hotel room was always at  least $100, even…

While researching Travel Guides on Amazon  – I came across a number of publishers that are using the content from WikiTravel. Now there is nothing wrong with that – its not illegal as the Wikitravel content is covered by a share and share alike copyright – which allows anyone to reproduce it so long as…