Travels

The land speaks. It is our duty to listen. Our flight takes us east from Broome to Kununurra. Kununurra, established […]

Clouds like spun cotton float above the land on an updraft of hot steamy air. The land below is flat […]

Saturday and Home Saturday, our last day in Florence. Tomorrow we catch the train back to Rome and fly home…one […]

Friday Today we were touring with Sense Umbria, Narelle and Troy Hindley, two Australians now living in Umbria. See www.senseumbria.com […]

Thursday Today we visit the Boboli Gardens and Palazzo Pitti. The Boboli Gardens is the home to sculptures dating from […]

Wednesday Today we are going to Pisa and Lucca, a private tour. We are supposed to meet our driver on […]

I love train travel, anytime, anywhere in the world–Africa, Europe, USA, Japan and Central Australia. One day I will board […]

Rome Saturday 23rd of January 2pm and I am two hours late. I have been flying for twenty-eight hours. At […]

Today, our last day together, we will visit Minerve, another Cathar stronghold and site of persecution and death. For all […]

This morning, excitement pervades the group. Today we are officially pilgrims. Today, those of us willing will climb the holy […]

Wednesday 24th June. Today we are visiting Notre-Dame-de-Marceille in the village of Limoux and the mysterious castle of Rennes-le-Chateau. Over […]

Alet-les-Bains We leave Saint Maries-del-le-Mer after breakfast…our first stop is Tarascon. The patron saint of Tarascon is St Martha. Legend […]

Saintes Maries-de-la-Mer Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is on the Méditerranéen Sea. This is said to be the place Mary Magdalene came ashore, together […]

St Maximin-la-Ste. Baume The small town of St Maximin-la-Ste Baume sits in the central Var department in the South of […]

Secrets of the Cathars & Mysteries of the Magdalene Tour June 2015   October 2014 and a friend mentions a […]

Wednesday morning Duncan picked us up from the hotel and dropped us at the airport. We were now on the […]

Gorillas in the Mist Our flight out of Victoria Falls was delayed by an hour. Finally we were on our […]

The Victoria Falls Wednesday 13th August we left Ngoma Lodge and drove to the Botswana and Zambia border, but this […]

Botswana Ten o’clock the next morning the train pulled into Victoria Falls Zimbabwe. Disembarking we went in search of our […]

The Rovus Rail Our flight from Skukuza to Johannesburg was via a small jet. We were the only three aboard. […]

Sabi Sands Game Reserve Flying from Cape Town we arrived in Skukuza Airport at 12:30 pm. Skukuza is in Sabi […]

Cape Town and its Surrounds  August 2014 Africa is the second largest and second most populous continent in the world. […]

The final leg of our Journey: A Week on the Yonne River Last night we stayed at the Hotel De […]

Chateau Cazenac Couz-et-Bigaroque France – Venue for Chris and Miranda’s Wedding The morning after the wedding everything and everyone was […]

Two trips to France in less than a year is not the norm for us. But after planning our Christmas/New […]

We left Italy behind and drove over the mountains and through tunnel after tunnel until we arrived in Monaco. Monaco, […]

Our flight went via Rome arriving in Venice at 2.30pm. We had booked a transfer to our apartment. The water […]

We don’t know why, but all four of us expected a small Sicilian village, not a metropolis. There is a […]

If you never, never go, you’ll never, never know just how beautiful the Italian landscape, Cities, food and people are. […]