Canyons, Casinos and... Aliens?!
Posted: 17 March 2012
What’s the first thing you think when someone says “Las Vegas” to you? Chances are you’re imagining bright lights, buzzing casinos, pool parties and...
Wildlife Sanctuary Volunteer In South Africa
Posted: 14 March 2012
I arrived in the evening on a Sunday night and was picked up from the airport and driven to the Sanctuary. Led into the kitchen, I was greeted by all...
The Real Circle of Life
Posted: 27 December 2011
‘Ok don’t be alarmed, stay still, the herd of elephants are just coming up right behind us.’ We breathe in and I cast a caution-filled glance...
Monkeying About in Kruger
Posted: 27 December 2011
After two connecting flights, an hour long conversation with South Africa’s first ever pop idol winner (!) and a particularly bumpy landing I arrived in Phalaborwa; the only town...
Goodbye South Africa, It's Been a Pleasure
Posted: 27 December 2011
As I sat in Joburg airport waiting for my flight to Heathrow I mulled over a few little South African quirks that I had relished. All of them I...
Life After My Gap 360 Travels...
Posted: 2 December 2011
I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE ITS ALL OVERRRR…Since I ended my amazing travels with Gap360, I have had a chance to reflect on my journey. Apart from...
Back in the Motherland...
Posted: 1 December 2011
After a mammoth journey involving a 6 hour bus journey, two 6 hour flights, 2 hours on the tube and another bus journey of 2 and a half hours over several days I am...
The Caribbean Coast
Posted: 24 November 2011
Palm trees, coconuts, reggae music, rice and beans and jerk chicken – yes indeed, I’ve been chilling on the Caribbean coast over the last week and I have...
Pura Vida en Costa Rica
Posted: 17 November 2011
My last week in San Jose has been great fun and so diverse. After getting back to the city on Monday evening after my weekend away and settling back in...
Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls..
Posted: 16 November 2011
Oh yes, most of Sunday afternoon I could not get TLC ‘Waterfalls’ out of my head as I scrambled up the most amazing waterfall in Montezuma...
Gliding down the Garden Route
Posted: 15 November 2011
Staring down into the Blourkrans Gorge from the highest bungee jump bridge in the WORLD was without a doubt the scariest moment of my life. Sky diving, zip lining...
Scuba Diving the Great Barrier Reef
Posted: 15 November 2011
If you’re going to do one thing in Cairns it has to be Scuba Diving…home to the Great Barrier Reef, with over 1500 different species of...
Catching Eggs
Posted: 14 November 2011
Friday morning and we’re off out of the city of San Jose, heading towards the Pacific coast of Costa Rica along winding roads through luscious...
El Silencio
Posted: 14 November 2011
The next day we drove into the mountains to a community called El Silencio or, ‘The Silence’. I wondered why it was called this, but as we drove...
Buñuelos en miel
Posted: 10 November 2011
I was hoping to learn how to make Gallo Pinto in our cooking lesson today, but I think this was even better. I didn’t think I had much...
Hey, where do you live? 200m south of that really big tree.
Posted: 10 November 2011
Getting a taxi home after a night out is usually a straight forward procedure. I tend to follow these easy steps: get in taxi, tell taxi driver my address, fall...
This. Is. Africa.
Posted: 9 November 2011
Cape Town has held me captive. I was meant to be going down the Garden Route but I’ve decided to elongate my stay in...
Hola, Costa Rica!
Posted: 8 November 2011
3am. A funky warehouse club in downtown Brooklyn. Disco ball, flashing lights, people dancing, drinks flowing, business cards exchanged between DJs, photographers, party goers – ultimate New York ...
Sailing Through Paradise Around the Whitsunday Islands
Posted: 6 November 2011
I used to think that postcards gave a deceiving picturesque image, so when I saw pictures of Australia‘s Whitsunday islands and Whitehaven beach I was quick to...
New York, New York!
Posted: 5 November 2011
After a sleepless night, tossing and turning in nervous excitement, the eagerly anticipated hour of departure finally arrived and suddenly I was 37,000ft above the Atlantic, hurtling through the sky...