Canberra – Old and New

Australia’s capital is a specially chosen capital where the Prime Minister, government and politicians run the country from. It was decided to make it Canberra when Australia became federated, although there was no Canberra back then. The Australian Government officially moved from Melbourne to this new town in 1927. For many years the country was …

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Travel Bloggers – Indahs: Dive, Travel and Photography

Today I am very excited to feature on my Sunday Travel Bloggers segment Indah whose amazing blog features the best underwater photography I have seen on the web. Do take the time to visit her blog because her photos are simply out of this world!   Hello from Minneapolis (USA)! My name is Indah, I …

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Little Places – Hampshire Falls, Myanmar

‘Little Places’ – you know, not a whole city or country, just a little place somewhere in the world where there’s a little something special worth an hour or two of your time. Thus begins a new series of posts. And I am starting in Myanmar. A place near Pyin Oo Lwin, in the highlands …

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Re-Blog Saturday – Teaching and Learning in Georgia

Today's reblog sees me enter my final days in Georgia. Hope you enjoy! Today is December the 19th. I sit in my hotel room in Tbilisi typing out another blog entry. Life is strange. Tomorrow I fly out of Georgia, with a couple of hops across China, to find myself once again in my country …

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A Morning on the Ganges in Varanasi

It was very early in the morning, well before six o’clock. A guesthouse by the Ganges, no sign of the sun. I knew I’d have to get up early, which meant naturally that I couldn’t sleep when I needed to because of the thought of waking up. Still, the alarm went off at not much …

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Guest Post – Why Chennai? By Tim Blight

Hello and welcome to a new week. Today's post is a GUEST post from Tim Blight from Urban Duniya. People may recall his interview HERE. He's also participated in a couple of the podcasts. Today he writes about a city I've never been to or covered on the blog, Chennai in India. Chennai, on the surface, is …

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Can do? Canberra! (Post 500!)

Yes, another post with a strange punlike title. And yes – this is my five hundredth post on Word Press, since I moved my blog here in early 2014. So that’s a pretty a pretty decent achievement I guess. I wonder how many words I’ve written, or overwritten! You find me today, or last night …

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