I'm taking part in The Lost Backpack's Blog Carnival today, and it's all about Nearcations - a holiday which doesn't take you too far from home, but still feels like a great getaway. Regular readers will know that I have raved about Rottnest Island a time or two before, and no wonder because it fits …
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Picture pirouette: Fishing near Albany
Albany, on the south coast of Western Australia, is not a place I usually visit as a tourist - my mother's side of the family come from around there and my uncle still fishes there. But this is not my uncle, and I was a tourist at the time, in a sense - I took this photo when I visited …
Dutch icons: Travel by tourist cliches, or is it real?
The Netherlands is a funny place. I mean that in the nicest possible way, but it's pretty unique for a reasonably small country that it has so many famous icons that people across the world would instantly identify as being from there: windmills, tulips, clogs and several kinds of cheeses, just to …