Need to know the best day trips from Basel? Read on! Researching and planning for trips is really an addictive activity for me. The more blog posts I read about my destination, the more I want to read. The more airbnb apartments I look up, the more I want to search for. The more train timetables I …
Switzerland
My version of budget travel (aka I’m a cheapskate traveller!)
Inspired by a piece on BootsnAll about travelling cheaply (or as cheap as possible) in five expensive countries, I have been thinking about what I'd like to call "cheapskate travel" - my version of budget travel. First up, you should know that I was raised by a bank manager father and a real estate …
An art museum where (nearly) everything moves
Last night I had the fantastic pleasure of seeing Shaun Tan speak: if you don't know him, he's an artist/illustrator/author who is originally from Perth, growing up in a suburb just down the road from me, and now he's an Academy Award winner, among a tonne of other accolades. While I could blather …