Best of the Web – Roaming Tales: Travel links for 17 August

Today brings another bumper collection of links to great travel content on the web. I hope you enjoy it – let me know in the comments. If I link to you below, please pay it forward and give link love to someone else. Debates, trends & reflections Island caretaker. I was less than complimentary in [...]

Ben Southall as island caretaker: Hit or miss?

British guy Ben Southall started the so-called “best job in the world” for Tourism Queensland about a month ago. How is he doing so far? Are you reading Ben’s blog or following him on Twitter? If not, why not? If so, what do you think so far? Please let me know in the comments. In [...]

Best of the web: Travel inspiration

A bumper crop of inspirational travel links from the blogosphere. I really enjoyed this month’s round-up. Intelligent Travel is running a series on readers’ guides to their favourite cities. In this post, Londoner Emma Torry gives us a personal tour of Hong Kong, from her top dim sum haunts to her favourite natural beauty spots. [...]

My top 11 for the Best Job in the World.

My picks for who I would follow as caretaker / chief blogger on Hamilton Island. I’ve now taken the time to watch all 50 short-listed videos on the site and I can confirm that my first impressions still largely hold. The candidates came from all over the world, there’s a mix of guys and girls, [...]

Top 50 for Best Job in the World

My quest for the Best Job in the World ended a week ago. Tourism Queensland announced the top 50 last Monday and I didn’t make it. I’d actually known for a few days already since everyone in the running for the top 50 had been contacted  for further information and psychometric testing at the end [...]

Food and travel merge at Roaming Tales

Welcome to the latest incarnation of Roaming Tales and The Gooseberry Fool. Things probably look a bit different to what you’re used to but I hope you like it. After a lot of thought and listening to feedback from readers, I have decided to merge the two sites. There’s a lot of crossover between food [...]

Best Job in the World – end of round one

A social marketing success story as Tourism Queensland deliberates over the top 50. You know that fabulous job on Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef? I wrote about my application here on Roaming Tales the other week and about the job and the reef more generally on EcoSalon. I’ve also been tweeting about it [...]

Best job in the world

How you can help me get my dream job – and what’s in it for you. QUICK LINK TO MY VIDEO Tourism Queensland is offering what they say is the best job in the world – and I’m inclined to agree. You’ve probably heard about this already – it’s made the news all over the [...]

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