We all love a good list, don’t we? The travel media have been busy publishing their ‘places to go in 2009’ lists, the hot ‘new’ destinations that guidebook publishers and travel publications think you should visit this year, ‘it’ places they want everyone talking about. Last year I posted a list based on places I’d … Read more about Hot new travel destination lists… don’t you love them? Well, don’t you?
Well, here goes…1. Make time for more meaningful experiences with family and friends – we didn’t see our family and close friends enough in 2008 and when we did it all seemed so fleeting. That has to change. 2. Travel less and stay longer – we lived out of our suitcases for another 365 days … Read more about My new year’s resolutions list for 2009
In response to the recent, dramatic escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza (read this excellent on-the-ground account by Ashraf Khalil and Rushdi Abou Alouf reporting for the LA Times), Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed has ordered that New Year’s Eve celebrations be cancelled in Dubai in solidarity with the Palestinians (read about it here on … Read more about A sombre tone set and New Year’s Eve cancelled in Dubai
We made it back to Perth, Australia, in the nick of time on Christmas Eve, so we could spend Christmas with my family – my Mum, sister and her husband and children. On Christmas morning we watched the kids open their “hundreds” (quoting my cute little niece here) of presents. Combined with delight at seeing … Read more about Are there better ways we could be spending Christmas?
My In Box has been inundated with belated Christmas messages these past couple of days, so like my slack, um, I mean busy friends, I’m going to say better late than never and I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have a magic New Year. I’d like to be able to blame my … Read more about A belated Merry Christmas… blame it on the weather? Or a broken bush telegraph?