That was the salutation I saw on at least a dozen emails from hotels and PRs on the Balearic island of Mallorca, Spain (also known as Majorca) while I was organizing our current trip, one in which my husband/co-author Terence is shooting thousands of images for several guidebooks and I’m updating one guidebook. Yet during … Read more about Greetings from sunny Mallorca
Melbourne, Singapore, Dubai, Venice… we’ve been doing some intensive globe-trekking these last weeks. It’s this kind of constant travel that causes us to wince when people say they envy our lifestyle – while it might be fine if you’re on holidays, it can be hell when you’re on a gruelling work schedule. First it was … Read more about On the road again… Melbourne, Singapore, Dubai, Venice, and Mallorca
Hectic times with no time for blogging at the moment, so why don’t you head over to Viator and take a look at our piece 3 Days at Uluru, on Australia’s star attraction and one of our favorite spots in the country. Have you been to Uluru? If so, what did you think? I went … Read more about 3 days at Uluru
I’ve been musing about airports and thinking about my experiences at Melbourne and Perth airports last week and what made them so bad, and reflecting upon what makes an airport cool, what kind of things would actually make the experience so much more fun! The factors that make Melbourne so unpleasant are the lack of … Read more about What makes an airport cool?
What are the developed world’s worst city airports? And what makes an airport bad for you? I’m convinced Melbourne and Perth’s airports must be somewhere on a worst airport list. Due to bad plane and bus connections, I spent a fair bit of time at both of these Australian airports this past week, and it … Read more about The developed world’s worst city airports?