If you had asked me five years ago whether I’d voluntarily leap out of a perfectly good airplane, strapped to another human being with nothing but a sheet in a bag to save me, I would have thought you were crazy. Yet, on August 26th this year, that’s exactly what I did. And for the […]
If you are looking for ways to recapture your youth, then a hike through the Avakas Gorge in Paphos should definitely be in your list if you are in the area! Pretend to be Indiana Jones or Lara Croft and explore this beautiful terrain, with boulders perched precariously between the canyon, huge birds circling overhead […]
So, it’s just before 8 in the morning, the sky is blue, the birds are singing, the dogs are barking and the Italian countryside awaits us. I don my trusty pink starburst yoga pants and my all weather jacket and we hit the road for our trek of the holiday the Giro dei condotti. I’m […]
Last week, we arrived in Rome around 1:45pm having got the train from Ciampino to Termini. We’d already booked our night in an apartment suite just next to the Vatican, so we decided to walk from Termini, straight down Via Cavour, which eventually spits you out between the Colosseum and Vittorio Emanuele monument. Having flown […]
Keep your hair on, I mean wildlife people! If you’re like me, you might be thinking that Australia is awash with snakes and spiders just waiting to jump out at you and you will no doubt have heard the advice of checking under the toilet seat (which I did religiously) just in case a redback […]
I am not a morning person, I will be the first to admit this, so when Martin advises me that we’d need to be up and out for 5am to go and watch the sunrise, I immediately tried to figure out how many hours of z’s I was actually going to get that night, I […]