Do you love travelling? Do you love architecture? And do you love cities? Well why not combine all three and follow our guide to architecture tours in famous cities around the world. What makes it into my top 10? Tel Aviv’s free city tours that focus on architecture. Rome – the...

Today I’m writing from the road – well really from the railroad tracks. I’m on a train from Manchester to Glasgow, gliding through endless green – the kind of green that you will never find in Israel, and only rarely in Australia. The green that only comes when the land is...

I began to think about Science Tourism the other day when I reflected on our recent honeymoon on Heron Island, a small coral cay in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. One thing I really loved about our stay on the island was how accessible science was, which makes it a...

The pavements in Lisbon are all cobbled I just went to Lisbon for work. I left home at midday on Tuesday, and got home at midnight on Friday. That’s 74 hours away from home. It includes 14 hours on aeroplanes, 10 hours in 4 airports (Tel Aviv, Rome, Lisbon, Paris), 18 hours in...

A few months ago Amit and I decided to take his Canon 5D camera with us for an afternoon stroll through Tel Aviv. The stroll lasted a few hours, we show you what Tel Aviv looks like on a Friday afternoon, and we met a few friends along the way. So here is a glimpse of our city, through our...

Food is a constant topic of conversation here. Everyone wants to know where you ate, what you ate, whether they should go. Most conversations go something like this: “You ate at somewhere? Which restaurant? Was it good? Where is it? Give me the details immediately! (because I can’t...

It took 31 hours from when I left home in Canberra to when I arrived in Tel Aviv… It was a massive journey – the worst of which was a 5 hour stopover in Amman, from 5am local time. Luckily I made friends with a pair of Irish sisters returning from a holiday in Thailand and we...

I’ve been told I’m not very good at updating this blog. Which is true. I tend to only write here when I’m travelling. I’ll be travelling again soon – I’m off to Tel Aviv to see Amit, who I met in Vietnam in April. I am incredibly excited. It will really...

I went to Ha Long Bay twice, for reasons I will get to below. Take one Cat, Mat, Claire, Sam and I took a Vega travel tour to Halong Bay straight after our overnight train from Sapa. There were 11 of us on the boat. It was misty and grey and a tad rainy, but through the mist we caught glimpses...

We arrived in Lao Cai from our overnight train journey from Hanoi. The journey was smooth, I slept just fine in my four-berth cabin with a Danish family. We eventually left Lao Cai in a mini van and for an hours winding journey up to the mountain village of Sapa. It was covered in mist and...

Mum, Dad and I headed to Fiji for Cat and Mat’s wedding, and went in search for my great-great grandfather’s grave on the way there. Levuka town Levuka is the place to go to see the real Fiji. It used to be the major trading port for all the pacific in the 1800’s. Now it’s more...

Well I’m back at work today – feels like I’ve been away for ages.. Check out my photos from the trip: http://picasaweb.google.com/jo.savill/NewZealand NZ was fantastic – such a spectacular country. The crazy adventure sports in Queenstown were definately a highlight...

I’m having a great time in New Zealand. It is so beautiful here, and so completely different to Australia… It reminds me a lot of Scotland and the lake district. First the pictures – well that’s me jumping off at 109m freefall canyon swing here in Queenstown. Oh my i...

Hi All,   My parents came to visit me in Canberra. We went up to the snowy mountains for the weekend (no snow around at the moment though of course!). It was really pretty up there, and we did the big walk up the highest mountain in Australia – Mt Kosciusko. It was quite easy...

I was just thinking that since returning from overseas I haven’t told all my mates what I’m up to. It seems that ordinary life has taken over, and things aren’t as exciting as they were but a month ago when I was travelling Europe. Well things are good, but in different ways...

I´m in Cordoba right now and it is a good 40 degrees outside… well its 35 degrees now that its 6pm. So hot! But at least it is quite dry. Spain is definitely the hottest part of the trip so far. I had a great time in Barcelona. Nita was stayed longer in Italy so I was on my own there....

We are having a great time in Istanbul – it is a fantastic place, with lots of stuff to do and see. Hyrum was ill for a few days when we got here, poor guy with food poisoning or something, but he’s doing much better now. His mate Rustin arrives tonight, so we are a group of 5 for...

We had a great day today on a tour of Transylvania. it was really beautiful up there in the forest covered mountains. The castles we visited were very fairytale like. First stop was the Palais castle, which is quite a modern one really Transylvannia was awesome today. Beautiful, very...